Essay on Misrepresentation of Muslim immigrants

From last few years, the role of Muslims going to be very critical and very suspicious. Specially after the Donald trump the position of Muslims in foreign countries become very difficult and their rights and obligations going to very crucial(Kolowich, 2017).  Media is not only representing the picture of society but also maintain the social meaning with social understanding. The media texts and their language choice must be understandable for the identities formation and cultural and social values. The media discoveries and media representations provide access on mechanism that provide political dynamic and social complex generated by different views. Media disclosure analysis provide a framework related to the usage of media belong to leaders and their opinions and politician attention to track the interventions of public lead social identity formation. Ideological dimension access can be obtaining by using media discourse analysis and they use very main or hot topics through which discourse of public are disturbed, prioritized and selected that provide a support for the political attitude formation. For the dominant political understanding, the production of discourse and accumulation of specific meaning become very relevant. And with the help of visible manifestation in language selection, the process is taking shape in media. The most meaningful discursive instance must be taken traditional media. And the producers for choose representative communication that have influential and visible related to opinion makers. The most common two terms belong to this issue is public intellectuals and politicians. The qualitative method with the quantitative method are applicable with the critical disclosure analysis. This analysis allow to do research in dimension to interpret discourses as social meaning of carriers and social wrongs are going to identified with different political manifestations, ideologies and institutions. By focusing on the context of media, a narrow selection of discourses was operated to overcome the statistical irrelevance in the given range.

American Muslim community is very far from homogenous and monolithic. the American Muslim community in the combination of different communities. The demographic distinction between immigrant Muslims and African American Muslims also present. The political position of these neither consistent nor uniform. But many identifiable common views are present for the politics. The context of racism and black marginalization in America, the political view of the African American Muslim community are very influence by the racial identity. For the African American Muslims, remain the overarching political umbrella as many traditional struggles of African American community to escape from the structural discriminations in American society. It is safe to consider that the idea of American exceptatinslism did not include black Americans and treated then as others in the history, without resisting the history of racism and its impact on black consciousness. They did not avail the privileges that are provided to white citizen of America. Many Muslims of African American reject the idea that America is a place of live where worthy of emulation and superior to those of any other society. Islamophobia is going to spread speedily in the American society and they continue to experience race base discrimination(Khan, 2012). And the exceptions of American not attract the black Muslims due to its rigid thinking and metal approach.  The immigrant Muslims community divided into two different groups that represent their view related to American exceptionalism. The first type of Muslims are not view more than the American bellicose and flawed foreign policies that applicable in Muslim majority society and follow American values. Their attitude must be cynical to some extend and about the American values is hypocritical and consist of islamophobia, imperialism and racism as per their rhetoric believes. Many voice are going to raise against the US policies because their values and cultural aspect are not supportive for the Muslims of that community. The most important political values include the freedom of humanity and united state consider the champion of freedom but their norms and values provide not enough freedom to the Muslim community of all over the world.

Muslim of every country who come or migrate to united states or America have to face many sort of issues related to their living and their life become very critical and complicated due to their rules and regulations. Any person who come here in case of migration and specially he is Muslim then he has to face many problems because the image of Muslims is very poor in front of world through bad imagination of media. Americans show many suspicious image of Muslims because there are many cases are going to observe that show that Muslims are terrorist and they just want to destroy the people of every country and they are bad in nature and they are not loyal with their friend’s family and community and they follow a wrong religion. But all these roamers are almost wrong because Muslim community is as simple and nice behave people as other communities are going to live their lives(Toppo & Overberg, 2019).

There are some politicians and their political issues arise that they are not willing to live with Muslims and not happy with their presence in the country. Such people want that no any nationality is provided to foreign people who came here in case of migration and immigrants have no rights as the American or national people have to spend their life without any fear or issue. Mostly immigrants are come to American to get higher education and want to learn more skills and knowledge because many high source of studies are available in the America and mostly people come here to study and then started job to get more earning. but their nationality is the basic problem as specific time period required to make them national person of America and after that they have to follow all the national responsibilities related to their living methods. The people of America want that no any nationality given to immigrants specially Muslims due to their poor image related to their behaviour and their religion.

Islam is the basic of all Muslims and they provide them good teaching and human friendly instructions that they live peacefully and help others without any hesitation. Furthermore, Islam religion never support the terrorist trends that media and other countries became famous for the Muslims. There are many events happen in last few years that create the image of Muslims as terrorist and all the non-Muslim think that Muslims only finish the people and destroy them by using weapons and other techniques. But in real this is completely wrong(Toppo & Overberg, 2019).

In current time period, people get knowledge through media and  social websites. They get knowledge about Muslims and consider them as represented through media. But the media at international level only present that America want and through different stories and cases show that Muslims are very hyper community and they are not able to live with non-Muslims as their aim is to threat them at every time. But most of issues are fake and non-Muslims also appear behind every incident when the internal evidences are going to collected at international level and Muslims only come in this line only poor and sick mentality of the people of America and specially its president. The current president of America is not willing to take support of Muslims and try to destroy the rights of all those Muslims who are living in America and the consider them third degree people due to their religion and their way of living.

The Muslims at the international level have to face many problems related to their living, housing, education and job also. Because the rigid mentality people also present in everywhere and they didn’t support the Muslims because of their personal issues. But this is also a fact that Muslimsbecame very successful in every field of education and they also promote their culture, their ethics, their norms and values that are provided by their religion. There are many factors who are not willing that Muslims with non-Muslims can live together and they always try to create problems at national and international level because the presence of Muslim going to increase in every field of life due to their intelligence and hardworking and their skills.

Muslims immigration becomes difficult with the Trumps policies of immigrants that he made for the Muslims. He used to say that Muslims are not good for their country as they have different and confusing norms and cultures. The main thing of Trump’s pressure on Muslim immigrants was that they use to follow their religion rules and hence the country rules that somehow different from their religion rule so they cannot follow them properly and hence this thing makes Trump annoying and harsh with them. He has made too much hard policies for refugees that they cannot feel comfortable in living in that country and hence it will be making the Trump happy as he wanted to tease Muslims to live there and grow them with success(Kolowich, 2017).

From monolithic or homogenous, the American Muslims are very much far. American Muslim community is the combination of many communities. But still there are some differences between the African American Muslims and immigrant Muslims. These groups are certainly identifiable common views on politics so the political position within each of these groups is neither consistent nor uniform. The main intention of the author is to summarize their views depend on various positions and also belong to American exceptionalism. In America, the African American Muslim community political views are very much affected due to racial identity and the context of black marginalization and racism. For the African American Muslims, the traditional struggles for the escape from the structural discrimination in American society still overarching under the political umbrella.

It is also observe by many people that when they come into Islam than they shift from the American community to American Muslim community. Historically, it is safe to suggest that the idea of American exceptionalism never include black American s and consider them as others, without the revisiting the history of racism and its impact on the black consciousness. There are many African AmericanMuslims that completely deny the idea related to America that America is the combination of special virtues that consider very much superior in the world and emulation worthy. The immigrant Muslim community can be further divided into two more groups. Thefirstgroup gives more focus on their positive personal experience related to American society related to opportunities and freedom. They also have a completely different opinion related to exceptionalism and their adopted country.  The second group of Muslims who consider the Muslim polices and regulations of Muslim countries and consider very flawed and bellicose foreign policy and treated very negatively the American values. The American democracy is supportive for the American Muslims to some extend because many flaws and rigid policies are applicable in America.

According to the article written on changing misrepresentations of race and crime, news programs exaggerate the actual situation and manipulate news in such a way that benefit some hidden identities. For instance article presented that news after and before the incidence of world trade center attack in New York media mainly targeted the Muslims community. In the research outcomes of this article researchers claimed that Muslims are over presented as terrorists than the actual terrorism evidences presented in crime investigations FBI official reports. According to results portrayed terrorists Muslims are 81% while actually Muslim community involved in terrorism are only 6% (official reports records). Moreover, article also discuss how media reports are causing to promotestereotyping in the community. Article represent that research study conducted on this topic has concluded that both cable and non-cable network are representing inaccurate information about terrorism ratio in Muslims community(Dixon & Williams, 2015).    

Another article written by M.A. Muqtedar Khan, Muslim community ofAfrican American are the burning question in USA racial societies. They are highly influenced by the marginalization in America.. Mainly this racism is supported by the political powers of the country. According to the information presented in this article Muslim community of African Americansare not the native of America as they were brought there years ago as kidnaped kids. The inequality and discriminative behavior of American is a world known fact. African American as Muslims immigrants are represented as aggressive community with terrorist backgrounds and inferior community. They rejects the idea that they are NativeAmericans particularly white races are superior to them. Author claim that American talk about freedom at each platform but when it comes to the peaceful solution for Palestine they were support Israel and its cruelty. Author emphasis that it is mainly the racism and political benefits that causes to make society worrisome for minorities and promote discriminations(Khan, 2012).

The article written on the topic of school diversity presents that school going children are also facing discriminative behavior.Article emphasized that gap between the total number of children going to school from Native Americans community and Muslims communities are the evidence of discriminative behavior. Educational barriers are the common problems of Muslim emigrants in this area. Article also claimed that total number of Muslim population is also manipulated for political advantages. For instance, US census survey records that residents of Eden Prairie from Somali ancestry are only 1800. While on the other hand, city official peg the total number of residents from Somali ancestry are more than 4500 in a city of about 81,000. Similarly, other information related to education, peace, and crime rate are also manipulated and misrepresented by these communities. In the article, author shared the example of Somali community (Muslim community) how they started campaign and protest to advocate the rights of their children. According to the Somali Community, prior to this they never raise their voice against the inequality and discriminative behaviors that was a wrong decision. US society claim that equal rights are given to all communities but the fact is quite different from their political statements.

References of Misrepresentation of Muslim immigrants

Dixon, T. L., & Williams, C. L. (2015). The changing misrepresentation of race and crime on network and cable news. Journal of Communication, 65(1), 24-39.

Khan, M. A. (2012). AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND AMERICAN MUSLIMS. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 10(2), 59-65.

Kolowich, S. (2017). On the Front Lines of a New Culture War. Retrieved from https://www.chronicle.com/article/On-the-Front-Lines-of-a-New/238770

Toppo, G., & Overberg, P. (2019). Anger, resentment over school diversity 'Culture shock' on both sides of issue . USA TODAY.