John Updike's 'The Wesk-Driving Aggression Rumors'?

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All Muslims are terrorist
For the last couple of years a rumor had been spread about all Muslims being terrorists. People started to believe that all the bombing and shootings that had been going on all over the world are caused by Muslims. This whole terrorism rumor started when a group of people named themselves as Isis, they started killing people in the middle east first and then spread all over the world under the logo we fight for Islam. All Muslims are now paying the consequences of Isis’s actions because it’s blamed on all of us not just them. Now in France Muslim ladies are not allowed to enter some shopping stores like Zara. In the United States some people are nice to us but once they know that we are Muslim, they stop talking to us and starts to treat us bad thinking that we are terrorist. Anyone who watches the new now and hears about bombing or shooting they automatically say …show more content…

Knapp describes how this kind of rumor is highly effective in destroying people and dividing communities. “The wedge-driving aggression rumor is so termed because of its effect in dividing groups and destroying loyalties; its essential motivation is aggression or hatred” (Knapp 228). An American novelist and a short story writer, John Updike in his article “The Rumors” he explain how we all became familiar with the what the public tells at about something and how we believe it right the way without thinking about what happens behind the door or behind the face of media. “We’ve become familiar with the public face of rumor: the instantaneous surge of an allegation across the internet and onto YouTube, the press releases on company letterhead …. But what happens behind the closed doors” (Updike 270). You can feel the hate and aggression that the Isis have on Islam to a point that they are doing all they can to make all people hate Muslims and that no one converts to

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