Common stereotypes associated with Muslims

Common Stereotypes Associated with Muslims

The "war on terror" by the Americans led to a rise in Islamophobia (fear or hatred of Islam) on a global scale. This increase is in turn reflected in the way the press approached and stereotyped Muslim populations. While some deliberately treated Islam in a positive way to try to counter Islamophobia, numbers of representations of Muslims have contributed to the formation of Islamic stereotypes in the media harmful.

The radical Muslim insurgents, determined to wage a holy war (jihad) against the West, is the most common stereotype about Islam, which usually depicts a ...