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Islam | The Media Stereotype Muslims as Terrorists
On a rainy summer afternoon in 1992, a certain Colonel Popovic welcomed me to the notorious concentration camp at Manjaca [where Bosnian Muslims were held by Serbs in the former Yugoslavia] with a question. “Do you know what jihad is?” he roared. My heart sank. He could have stepped out of any Hollywood movie or Western newspaper report, let alone from the heart of Serbian nationalism. Inside Manjaca were the “ethnically cleansed” Muslim survivors of north-western Bosnia. But listening to Colonel Popovic, I reflected I had heard the same pernicious, insidious words used about...
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Chapter 1
- Chapter 1 Preface
- Islamic Values Are Incompatible with Western Values
- Islamic Values Are Compatible with Western Values
- Islam Presents an Obstacle to Democracy
- Islam Does Not Present an Obstacle to Democracy
- Islam Suppresses Freedom of Speech
- Claims That Islam Suppresses Freedom of Speech Are Hypocritical
- Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
- Chapter 3 Preface
- Islamic Terrorism Poses a Threat to the United States
- The Problem of Islamic Terrorism Is Overstated
- The Islamic Doctrine of Jihad Advocates Violence
- The Islamic Doctrine of Jihad Does Not Advocate Violence
- The Media Stereotype Muslims as Terrorists
- Media Stereotypes Do Not Define the Image of Muslims
- Chapter 4
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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