Nora Weintraub”Are you going to devote a complete issue to ’Muslims’? M. wondered indignantly the other week/…/Categorising and objectifying people as ‘Muslims’ leads to increased discrimination and demonisation, which in turn leads to increased antagonism in society”, he warned. In many respects he is right./…/We have to react when people are categorised according to religious affiliation and are obliged to be full-time Muslims (earlier in history Jews were distinguished in the same way)./…/Those of us in the media need to discuss and be more aware of the messages we spread and what kind of effect they have./…/But I wholeheartedly maintain that in all contexts facts are better than prejudices and preconceived ideas – and that you have to ask if you want to know. There is no doubt that this is a complicated research field that demands sound knowledge – likewise the question of what this essential knowledge is and who might possess it/…
religion, Muslims, discrimination, Islam, the media, affiliation, prejudices
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