tailieunhanh - MACLEANS MAGAZINE: A CASE STUDY OF MEDIA-PROPAGATED ISLAMOPHOBIA

Whilst often defined through their capabilities to publish, share and connect, it is important to recog- nize that social media are also valuable for listening and monitoring wider conversations, trends and sentiment. Where first generation websites are about publishing, social media are about conversa- tions and networks. They work most effectively when they are treated as an active medium, where you connect and engage, responding to comments and answering questions in real-time. Good social media practice means listening, responding, asking and sharing; it’s about being an active participant in the network. It can be helpful to consider engagement as a set of sequential stages | MACLEANS MAGAZINE A CASE STUDY OF MEDIA-PROPAGATED ISLAMOPHOBIA Prepared by Khurrum Awan Muneeza Skeikh Naseem Mithoowani LLB Osgoode Hall Law School - 2007 Ali Ahmed LLB Candidate Osgoode Hall Law School - 2008 Daniel Simard LLB Candidate Osgoode Hall Law School - 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF CONCERNS .4 Promoting Islamophobia and Fear of Representing Muslims as violent people who are incapable of living peacefully in their host societies . 5 Casting of suspicion on Muslims at large as potential terrorists extremists and radicals .6 Representing the presence and growth of Muslims in Western societies as a threat to traditional Western culture and the Western values of democracy freedom and human Attempting to import a racist discourse and language into mainstream discourse in Canadian society . 10 Attacking multiculturalism and religious Attacking laws that provide protection to identifiable communities from discriminatory journalism 12 Condemning any and all efforts by Politicians Law Enforcement Media and other institutions to reach out to Muslim communities and to exercise Conclusion .14 The future belongs to Wake up ostriches Islam s in an expansionary phase. In case you hadn t Wake up Europe. It may already be too late --- Why the fall and spring riot seasons in France are signs of the coming What should I do Imam Novelist Robert Ferrigno imagines the Islamic Republic of America in the year 2040. 29 Celebrate tolerance or you re dead - Oriana Fallaci appeals to Europe to save itself. Good The press darling who became the Jew . 36 Why are teachers trashing Western values .37 Feeding the hand that bites them. 40 The little mosque that couldn t - We re so boundlessly tolerant we tolerate endless dreary shows about how intolerant we The war on terror is the real women s issue - Feminists whine about life in the West but they won t fight the bigger .