Negative image of Middle East

Recent issue connected to the situation discussed above when Barack Hussein Obama was depicted as Arab, due to the fact that his full name sounded somehow similar to Saddam Hussein. Yet Arabs have the most unpleasant and offensive image among racial minorities. The most popular stereotypical opinion about this group is accusing them in almost all terroristic actions; this thought became more popular and realistically taken since tragedy of September 11th. Better to say that portrayal of whole Middle East defined with word terrorism. Of course, existence of terroristic acts cannot be denied, but do media show us all the real image of religious sects that propagate mass suicides or killed kidnapped children as victims for the Satanic Church. The answer is simple, majority consists of white people that are just not interested in ‘white killers’, they don’t want to see themselves as murderers, so that it seems much pleasant to see negative sides of minority group. Moreover, nowadays media more and more abuse its power in depiction of this particular minority group and construct strong racial hostility against it. Another significant issue is religion. Considering the well-known fact that official Arabic religion is Islam, many people started to define Islam as a violent religion that carries an idea of war. It can be seen that social hostility turns into religious discrimination against all Muslims. For instance, after American dramatic event in September, world news were full of the information pointing out on race and religion of the extremists. It caused shock all around the world as it started to create false beliefs and attitudes that developed into idea to be aware of all Muslims or Arabs, and blame everyone the same race and religion. On my own experience I was witness of religious antagonism connected to inaccurately interpreted messages sent by media after 9/11. My non-Muslim classmates were pointing on Muslims saying that Islam propagates blood and started to associate Muslims with terrorists. Even though, I was studying in Kazakhstan at that time and majority of people are Muslims, media strongly affected those people from minority that were non-Muslims, so that they became absolutely disoriented. Another serious point not to be forgotten is that portrayal of whole Middle East defined with word terrorism. Of course, existence of terroristic acts cannot be denied, but do media show us all the real image of religious sects that propagate mass suicides or killed kidnapped children as victims for the Satanic Church.