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Why are Arabs portrayed as terrorists in the media?

Whether they are televised or printed, it is not surprising that Western media reports

maintain a constant distorted image of Arabs and Muslims. Fabricated stereotypes of

Islam are omnipresent in Western media through all means of communication. What is

lamentably odd is that Arabs and Muslims are seen as one and unique entity with the

aim to be arbitrarily regarded collectively as anti-rational, barbaric, anti-democratic, etc.

To achieve this aim the western media deliberately distort many Islamic concepts.

Basically, as it is embedded in the term itself, Islam means peace and it is considered

an essential precondition for maintaining the mainstream harmony and amity with nonMuslims. On this basis, Jihad comes as second alternative when peace is not

respected. However, the concept Jihad has undergone a series of deformations. In the

first place, it links Muslims to bloodthirsty people and makes them a love-violence

nation. Then, stripping it from its religious and spiritual connotation, the West reduces

the concept Jihad to a mere act of terrorism

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