Friday, May 6, 2011

Taking a look at the language Islamophobia

Mohideen, H. & Mohideen. S. (2008) The language of Islamophobia in internet articles. Intellectual Discourse: 16 (1), pp. 73-87.

This articleis about the language that is used for the fear and hatred of Muslim people. Despite meaning "peace" in Arabic, the Western World seems bent on painting a linguistic picture on all Muslim people being terrorists. This article covers terms like Islamic Terrorism, Fanatacism, Extremists and other negatively stereotyping phrases that are commonly used in both life and the internet.
My research being on the negative outlook Brigitte Gabriel gives to the Western world, she often uses many of the terms talked about in this article. Her use of extremist, radicals, nazis and even Barbarians are loaded with Islamophobia, which helps her to spread negative stereotypes.
In one interview, Ms. Gabrielle will deny her generalization of all Muslim people and in the next she'll barely differentiate between the two. In another she'll say that there is only one Islam (not radical and/or moderate.) Her sometimes confusing use of hate speak can make it very difficult to get any differentiation , but one will get the picture that she is in fact spreading nothing but hate.
Her use of language is very useful along with this article, because Mohideen and Mohideen (2008) talk about nearly any term that she uses to call Muslims.
Has anyone else caught on to how little she differentiates between radical and moderate Muslims???

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