Stereotyping : Muslims and the Mass Media

I can say with some certainty that almost 50% of all Americans think of Muslims as warlike, turban-wearing savages each of who conceal several sticks of dynamite beneath their clothes. And again I say with certainty that most of those 50% of Americans have been told some time in their lives that their view is not at all the truth, and yet these people still go on believing what they see on the tv and read in newspapers. The mass media in this country has created a batch of extremely narrow minded individuals that rally behind a false ideology, that which portrays the religion of Islam as the biggest threat to the world. I won't state random well known yet overdone facts trying to put Islam on a pedestal, I won't try to persuade you to convert your religion, instead I'd just like some of you out there to open your eyes to the facts presented to you by your president and the mass media of these United States of America.

It's true that a lot of the so called terrorism in this country is executed by 'Extremist Muslims', but the part that the media likes to leave out and understate is that little word before muslims, extremist. These people, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and others are all a very small portion of extremists that aren't even considered real Muslims by the majority of our religion. If one may look into the Quran and the Bible, they are almost identical books, so the major points covered by them are about the same. A good one to point out being 'Thou shalt not kill.' Remember that one? Well, that one is completely identical in both books. These extremists out in the Middle East are taking things way too far, in essence, feeding the media in this country. The media in turn reports their biased findings on the news and in newspapers, wherever they can get their word out, they'll try to sway the public to whoever is endorsing them. If we weren't being led by President George Bush, then I could have guaranteed 100% that the daily headlines would be different on every news show and newspaper in circulation nationwide.