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Islamophobia: What Teachers Can Do to Reduce It in the Classroom.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hossain, Kazi I. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | Kazi Hossain is an associate professor in the Department of Early, Middle, & Exceptional Education in the College of Education and Human Services at Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, incidents as “terrorism.” There is no doubt that these actions were definitely “terroristic” in nature. However, it is important to see if these incidents fit the definition of the word “terrorism.” According to the Oxford Dictionary terrorism is “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians.” Based on this definition, the above mentioned incidents appear to be correctly identified as “terrorism.” Unfortunately, but also interestingly, there have been other mass shootings including the killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina (February 11, 2015), the church shooting in South Carolina (June 17, 2015), the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut (December 14, 2012), the Aurora Movie Theater shooting in Colorado (July 12, 2012), and the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin (August 12, 2012). These violent acts have not been identified as acts of “terrorism.” The media did not identify the religion of these perpetrators, but instead labeled them as being “mentally disturbed or deranged” individuals. Each of these incidents clearly falls under the definition of terrorism mentioned earlier, but neither the media nor the experts who analyzed these mass killings referred to these actions as “terrorism” or identified the religion of these perpetrators. Such biased classification of various incidents by the news media certainly has fueled the growth of Islamophobia among the general public and this media bias has not gone unnoticed by some journalists. For example, a Senior Media Editor of the Huffington Post, Gabriel Arana, eloquently highlights this bias in an article titled “Islamophobic Media Coverage Is Out of Control. It Needs To Stop.” Arana (2015) cited CNN on the issue of the Paris attack where the CNN anchor John Vause asked the following question to a French anti-Islamophobia activist: “Why is it that no one within the Muslim community there in France knew what these guys were Introduction |
| Starting Page | 35 |
| Ending Page | 40 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 25 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1170615.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
