Notes & Quotes
on my Critical Investigation
Books:
Islamphobia: Making Muslims the Enemy- By Peter Gottschalk,
Gabriel Greenberg
‘Many
Americans remain inherently wary of Muslims.’
This links to my critical investigation as the book
discusses that Muslims are the enemy of today’s society due to 9/11 and 7/7
bombings as many people lives have been affected by it.
Muslims and the News Media edited by Elizabeth Poole, John E. Richardson
‘All
articles….explicitly referred to Muslims or Islam were selected’
This connects to the
9/11 bombing due to editors picking out stories that are partially misleading
towards Muslims and making them be ‘the other’ and scare people such as the
audience as newspaper try to create a moral panic.
Islamphobia and Its Consequences on Young
People: European Youth Centre -By Ingrid Ramberg
‘Masses, women, Islam, black colour,
exaltation, and Islamism.’
The consequences that the media
has on younger generation is a number of things as they are challenging many of
the stereotypes as young people who are Muslims need to carry on with religion
showing their right side.
Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after
9/11- By Evelyn Alsultany
‘Though
often seen as the enemy’
Evelyn
Alsultany had agree that the media had seen Muslims as the negative as they
were often seen as the bad ones as if there was a terror attack then Muslims
would get blamed for the attacks.
Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media- By Wahid
Afrose Kabir
‘Spoke
of their exclusive identity, sometimes other ethnic or religious
afflictions...perhaps the theorising of Stuart hall
(1994:122) helps with this’
Through
the media, the young British Muslims identity and cultures are being
interpreting by Hall’s theory of preferred reading portrayed through the media.
‘The discourse of terror post 9/11
has become globalised, both in the flows and formations of the world’s
media.’
This
connects to how powerful media is getting throughout the years as globalization
is connected to McLuhan’s theory becoming true as he discussed that the world
is a global village.
Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and
Representation by Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin
‘There
is no conspiracy between politicians and the media to restrict the way Muslims
are represented’
They
show that politicians have nothing to do with restricting the media to
represented Muslims in a bad way to create Islamphobia amongst people.
Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging
Historical and Modern Stereotypes Dr. Katherine Bullock
‘Muslim woman are
often unduly restricted and denied their rights to attain their full potential
as human being.’
Women are tightly
knitted in the society today due to the western society being misleading but Muslim
women in today’s society are trying to overcome/challenge those historical and
modern society. Trying to become socially accepted to have a right to work and
to have an education, and not stay as house wife at home leading to be a
housewife or a mother which is also important in Islam.
Orientalism by Edward
W. Said
‘Media images command too much
attention and can be exploited at times of crisis and insecurity of kind that the
post 9/11 produced’
One of theorist who directly links
to my critical investigation is Edward Said as he discussed the east vs. west
or the other, media images that are taken in places such as Iraq and Iran which gain too much attention
due the wars and al-Qaeda.
Academic Texts
Entertainment wars: Television culture after 9/11-L Spigel - American Quarterly, 200
‘After the attacks of September
11…on televisions violent movies also came under network…The Siege deals with
Arab terrorist planning to bomb New York’
L Spiegel discusses in his essay
that after 9/11 television shows and movies that were more based violence, the
shows based them towards Muslims being the villains which links in with
Vladimir prop’s theory of characters.
Media (mis) representations- Katherine H Bullock-
‘Muslims women are presented as
outsiders or ‘the others’
As a Muslim outsider, Katherine
Bullock had portrayed that many Muslims women like women in hip hop videos are
represented to be much weaker than men in an aspect but as they are Muslims
they are kept under even tighter circumstances to not ruin their image so they
are made to feel like an outsiders towards the western culture.
British Arab Muslim Audiences and Television
after September 11
Zahera Harb* & Ehab
Bessaiso*
‘The ability, desire and willingness
of Muslims to assimilate peacefully in the U.K.
Zahera
& Ehab wrote this text on British Arab Muslims after 9/11 as they are Muslims themselves they have challenge the
stereotypes as they argue how Muslims are allowed to assimilate in Britain over
10 years, which shows that the white British people such as politicians are
changing their minds to become very diverse and worry free.
'Islamphobia' reconsidered- Fred Halliday
‘Alarmism has concerned the
‘threat’ which, from one side, ‘Islam’ poses to the non-Muslim world and on the
other ‘the west’ poses to Muslims'
This text connects to Edward Said
and Alvarado theory’s as Muslims are represented are considered to be a threat
in today’s society as one side promotes
Islam and the other ‘the west’.
New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere- JON W. ANDERSON
‘The Muslim world is experiencing
a media explosion from street-corner kiosks to satellite television and the
Internet. Islamic messages and discussions of them are everywhere.’
Muslims are part of the on-going
population building up to using different types of media through television and
the internet as they try to get across the Islamic message through to other
people quicker and faster.
Media, Education, and
Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World-
Matthew Gentzkow & Jesse
M. Shapiro
‘Individuals watching Arab news
channels or educated in schools with little Western influence are less likely
to agree that the September 11 attacks were carried out by Arab terrorists.’
This links in with hall’s theory
of readings as some people who are not controlled by society may view the
oppositional reading of text and may think it is another person who are the
terrorist other than the ARABS
Internet Links
Diary of a Badman:
'I'm not a model Muslim, but I make people think-http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/shortcuts/2012/jun/10/diary-of-a-badman?INTCMP=SRCH
‘Muslims of the 21st century have taken this guy as a role
model’
This shows that Muslims are trying to challenge the stereotypes
and become the bigger person in today’s society which may lead the audience’s
minds or perspective of the 9/11 attacks disappear or even vanished.
Homeland: does it
give an accurate picture of Middle East
politics?-http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/oct/25/homeland-accurate-picture-middle-east-politics
‘Why would an al-Qaida (Sunni) jihadi type be cooperating
with (Shia, Iranian-backed) Hizbullah anyway?’
Homeland shows us that types of Muslims are combing together
to make a big massive force, this doesn’t give an accurate reading of Muslims
as normally the Sunnis and shias are against each other as they don’t
understand the different ways they pray.
Channel 4 cancels
Islam documentary screening after presenter threatened- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9535854/Channel-4-cancels-Islam-documentary-screening-after-presenter-threatened.html
‘Having taken security advice, we have reluctantly cancelled
a planned screening of the programme Islam’
British television broadcasters are scared due to Muslims as
they get outraged or fuming if their religion is discussed through televisions
as broadcaster portray Muslims to be as ‘the other’ of society
Fear and loathing:
Another unholy row about Islam -http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fear-and-loathing-another-unholy-row-about-islam-8131189.html
They'll often react to something, get angry or outraged. But
what we need to be doing is to respond with reasoned, rational arguments."
Muslims are made to be seen to have a short temper leading
to a big debate through social networking sites especially OFCOM as they
control media throughout the UK and as they control the media so they have to
take in the complaints of their audiences in which could lead to an investigation.
Last night's viewing
- Islam: the Untold Story, Channel 4; Accused, BBC1-http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-viewing--islam-the-untold-story-channel-4-accused-bbc1-8084486.html
"History is like a labyrinth,"
This shows that history repeats itself throughout the years
since 9/11 bombings as people haven’t got over the fact that they are certain Muslims
groups which were in control over the bombings and they were the al-Qaeda.
