- Media perpetuates anti-Islam hate through a pre-defined mainstream narrative
- Cyclical perception influenced through negative portrayals
- Media and Entertainment industry is divisive in labels, black vs white, and demonization
- Lack of tolerance, understanding, and inter-faith dialog
- Perceptions of backward stereotypes and biases that contradict western values and beliefs (although one can question, what are western values and beliefs?)
- Fear of the unknown
- Lots of collective judgement and generalizations that breeds prejudices, biases, and discrimination
- Looking for someone else to blame or scapegoat for the issues in their lives
- Trigger of tribalism of us vs them
- Fear of sharia law (even though, this is not really a required practice)
- Extremism and terrorism which is propagated, financed, and perpetuated by the West. This is indicative of the fact that conflicts and wars are profitable to the West.
- Historical context in the crusades
- Direct financial motives connected to natural resources and religion. Many pre-dominantly Islamic countries are rich in natural resources, centers of trade routes, and rich in traditional values.
- Cultural complications with dietary restrictions, freedom of speech, treatment of women, religious attire, and many other cultural practices are seen as odd and incomprehensible
- Perceived as a threat to western cultural norms (what exactly are western cultural norms is anyone's guess where people are confused about what gender they are?)
- Bad perceptions and intolerance feeds further negative views and hate like a vicious cycle
- The fact that many muslims are fixed in their beliefs and unwilling to change makes it incompatible with modern values of social progress, democratic participation, and resistance to scientific thought
- The perceptions that Islamic societies have an intolerance for other religions
How do you counter this?
- The West likely needs to stop interfering in foreign politics, economics, and conflicts
- The West should focus on their own taxpayers
- The West should stop trying to colonize other countries that don't conform to their ideals to steal land and natural resources
- Respect other people, their cultures, and values
- Provide more objective mainstream narrative and mindful use of language with journalistic ethics and responsibility so people can decide for themselves
- The West should let countries flourish and grow
- Stop bombing their countries so they don't turn into refugees and cause a western immigration crisis
- Increase tolerance through understanding and inter-faith dialog
- The understanding that every one has the right to liberty and security wherever they are in the world
- The understanding that basic human rights are accorded to people in every civilized society
- Stop being so greedy with the colonial mentality
- The West should stop selling weapons and equipment, if there are no real conflicts, who'd need the budgets for defence?
