Muslim Stereotypes

Recently we have been living in the fear of terrorism and tragic and in the most recent acts of terrorism around the world we have created the stereotype that all muslims are terrorists, because many of the acts of terrorism happened to be done by those of a muslim extremist group, but not by standard muslim communities.

The first reason that supports the that not all Muslims are terrorists is the number of attacks that happen in the United States is actually carried out by non-Muslims, the Huffington Post states, "According to the FBI, 94% of terrorist attacks carried out in the United States from 1980 to 2005 have been by non-Muslims." Looking at this fact, it proves that people are often making assumptions about the Muslim community. People make assumptions because they don't know all the facts about Islam, which is the religion. Since the Muslim terrorists often use their religion to justify their action, this makes it easier for people to assume that all Muslims are terrorists.

Not all information that is being presented by the media has a positive outcome. The Huffington Post states, “The majority of Americans are instead exposed to Muslims through the media”, This shows how the media presents the news on the act of terrorisms that was done by the Muslim extremist groups, which tends to represent all Muslims as terrorists, and are violent people, which is not the case, not all Muslims are terrorists or violent. People observe these negative representations of Muslims through media outlets, including TV, newspapers, social media and movies. Because of these negative media representations, all Muslims are seen violent, aggressive, and scary, creating negative emotions towards Muslims. Some people act on those negative emotions and actually harming Muslim