We as Americans, tend to be very scared of Muslims and what they could do to our country. On Fox News, O'Reilly presents a program titled "Obama, Abdul-Jabbar and Islam", where O'Reilly argues about the religious issues. Partially, he does not do a good job convincing the liberal audience, and by doing this he commits appeals to logos and pathos. At the beginning of the video, he started with a dreadful attitude towards the Islamic people who commit horrible terrorist acts by using the name of their god.
The talking points discussed were President Obama, Islam, and the famous NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. O'Reilly's argument is ineffective at convincing his audience, but he tries to coax them by using techniques for the audience. It is obvious that the speaker's use of a negative and disapproving tone is against Obama's approach regarding the terrorist attacks. O'Reilly attempts to ethos by
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O'Reilly used clearly Red Herring fallacy when he does not stay in his point, he just deviates from the main topic and he digresses talking about other information, like Obama and the survey about it. The speaker's words convey in a negative connotation to the general audience saying things like, "Abdul-Jabbar is missing the fact that much of the Muslim world does not understand the Islamic religion. Pakistan for instance, it allows the Taliban, who are major human right violations, sanctuary. Is that permissible under Islam? Apparently, the government of Pakistan believes it in" (O'Reilly). O'Reilly uses the Ad Hominem fallacy as well by attacking the government of Pakistan and the column of Abdul-Jabbar, and he said it as if he knew the Islamic religion. His argument and evidence are not strongly persuading his
On September 11, 2001, since the terrorist attacks, many American Muslims have been stereotyped negatively in the United States. Salma, a Muslim woman, says that the way Muslims have been recognized in the media has played a big role in the antagonisms directed to her. “I don’t know how many time I heard my classmates accuse me of being al-Qaeda or a terrorist” (Mayton 2013). Salma, along with other Muslims, even after a decade, are still struggling with trying to find their “American” and “Islamic” identities, while facing verbal attacks for their ethnicity. Too often, the general Muslin population gets lumped in with the immoral acts of a few because of the lack of knowledge about their culture.
For a second, the U.S. stood still. Looking up at the towers, one can only imagine the calm before the storm in the moment when thousands of pounds of steel went hurdling into its once smooth, glassy frame. People ran around screaming and rubble fell as the massive metal structure folded in on itself like an accordion. Wounded and limping from the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, America carried on, not without anger and fear against a group of innocent Americans, Muslim Americans. Nietzsche’s error of imaginary cause is present in the treatment of Muslim Americans since 9/11 through prejudice in the media, disregard of Muslim civil liberties, racial profiling, violence, disrespect, and the lack of truthful public information about Islam. In this case, the imaginary cause against Muslims is terrorism. The wound has healed in the heart of the U.S. but the aching throb of terrorism continues to distress citizens every day.
In the essay, the writer acknowledges the misunderstandings that come from media images by explaining the contrasts between these images and the teachings of the faith to support her claim that fear is the reason for this misconception. The conception that many people have of Muslims is that they are terrorists, anti-Semites, and fanatics. This conception exsists because television news and newspapers support that stereotype. The broadcast of such stereotypes encourages fear and accusations of the Islamic relegion's teachings. The writer explains that Islam teaches peace, tolerance, and equality. She further states that Muslims shown in the media have violated these teachings ...
In “A Lot To Learn,” David Brudnoy uses extreme bias and illogical fallacies in an effort to stimulate the drive America needs to fight his definition of the “war on terrorism,” but instead he diverges on unrelated tangents that detract from his argument. From the start of his article, Brudnoy tries to appeal to his audience’s emotions to win their support. In the second paragraph, he uses an “overemotional” fallacy: “To see the Twin Towers in New York City vanish, like some repulsively persuasive special effect in the latest action movie, and then to see them vanish again and again” (226). Brudnoy uses italics to create the impression that 9/11 was a complete shock and that people had to relive it to believe it. Highlighting the action movie also appeals to his audience because it connects his point (irrelevantly) to popular culture. Next,
The Arab and Islamic Empire made some of the greatest contributions to the world during its reign. During a time when Europe was in the midst of the Middle Ages was cut off from the rest of the world, the Arab Empire flourished with trade and intermingling. As Christian Europeans struggled to reclaim Jerusalem for themselves with the Crusades, the Muslims’ vast territory not only housed Jerusalem, but Mecca, and land as far as Cordova, Spain. Where European Medieval doctors were untrained and performed numerous amputations, and leeching, Islamic doctors studied and practiced advanced medical treatments. The Muslims made great contributions to education, science, and trade alike. The Muslims were able to make contributions that impacted the
FOX reports were in favor of Trump's idea because it would make America more secure. Security of the nation is a significant factor to the FOX network as is evident in one article titled "Trump Doubles Down on Vow to Bar Muslims" by Christopher Snyder. In the article, Snyder backs up Trump's statement against Muslims by adding some context to the infamous remark. Snyder added phrases from Trump, such as "You're going to have many more World Trade Centers if you don't solve it -- many, many more and probably beyond the World Trade Center," aiming to take away some of the racializations behind Trumps' words (Snyder, 2015). Another article from FOX written by Dana Blanton, argues that the attack in San Bernardino, California that killed fourteen people was the motive for Trump to make these statements as the couple who carried out the attack were Muslim (Blanton, 2015). This addition to the news article promotes the idea that Trump's proposed policy would do well at reducing terrorism by Muslims. Lastly, in a FOX interview with Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump said the ban on Muslims entering the United States "is about security, it's not about religion" (Trump Says Vow, 2015). From this, it appears that FOX News does also racialize Muslims by assuming that most are inherently terrorists wishing to harm
Islam in America has historically been misunderstood, and this is due to the misconception of culture and religion as well as lack of education and incorrect portrayal in the media, which gives a skewed idea of Islam. Especially in the United States, Islam has been seen as the “terrorist religion” or a religion for the extremists and a religion in which freedom is not an option. Among the countless misconceptions, the basis of stereotypes by Americans is due to the mix up between religion and culture. Furthermore, the media only fuels fire to these misunderstandings and lack of factual information about Islam causing Americans to lash out on American Muslims without reason.
His talk allows his listeners to broaden their view regarding extremism and Islam as a religion. Using his personal story, Ebrahim emerges as the alternative voice of the Islam community that has continuously being on the receiving end for its perceived intolerance. He manages to convey this message with precise clarity with rhetorical strategies. The ethos were essential in injecting credibility in his exchange with the Ted Talks audience. He surfaces as an astute speaker in touch with the realities of extremism and religious discrimination. The talk incorporates logos extensively to highlight the rationality of the speaker’s assertions. His logical sentiments help him in achieving this. Through his brave personal confessions, Ebrahim rouses emotions, imaginations, and divergent views. He effectively executes pathos through his choice of words and expression of life
In 2008 Barack Obama became president of the U.S. He is the first African American president of the U.S this motivated many people in the United States. This changed many things for us.
They are a reminder of America’s long and deeply ambivalent history with Islam, Arabs, and the Middle East.” (Makdisi 1). Makdisi feels that the fear of Muslims was not always there; stating that Thomas Jefferson read the Quran and was very interested in the religion. Protestant missionaries wanted to save and convert the people that practiced Islam; the missionaries did not fear Muslims or Arabs (Makdisi 1). Makdisi goes on to say that the fear of Muslims did not start until the end of the 20th century mainly because the new wave of Immigration in the 1960’s. Makdisi says, “rather, the stigmatization of Arabs and Muslims occurred principally because of the politics in the Middle East and because of the enormously consequential United States role in the region” (Makdisi 1). Makdisi blames the United States ' involvement and support in Israel and states that the Iranian hostage situation was "similarly a direct response to the United States support for t he Shah of Iran” (Makdisi 1). Makdisi argues that the people of the United States were hurt by the policies our own country had in place. Both Lyre and Makdisi agree that the attacks on September 11th, 2001 only reinforced the stigma that was there and make it easier for the world to view all Muslims, Arabs, and all people from the Middle East in a negative
There is a strong belief that Islam and politics are directly tied. They are tied in the sense that the building blocks of the religion dictate how they ought to behave in the political environment. Through this mandatory follow up behavior that the religion delineates, many have come to believe that its teachings are a form of terrorism. Mandaville argues that what has challenged the Islamic link between politics and religion was the emergence of secularism, which went against the belief that politics and religion could go together. Islam has been a religion that has been accused of supporting terrorist activities in the world. Different assumptions have been brought up to understand better the linkages between what really lies behind the Islam religion and politics. Peter Mandaville argues that Islam is dynamic and that it has changed over time; situated within time and politics.
“Even without incidents of violence, mass media stroke fears of terrorism by reporting hugely inflated estimates of alleged threats” (Kurzman 15). This also relates to the United States and how they used film and media to put fear into the community during World War II. CNN’s senior media correspondent Brian Stelter covered this topic on a debate segment of -Red News Blue News titled “Does the Media Promote Islamophobia”. Stelter begins the segment by touching on how Islam is manifested in the media to cause exaggerated fear and hostility toward Muslims, perpetuated by negative stereotypes. He gives different examples of this. For instance, Tom Shillue (stand-up comedian) stating on Fox’s The Five that if there is a moderate Muslim voice “out there” now is the time to speak up and Sean Hannity calling a “Jihad rising worldwide”. This not only shows how one with no credentials can input their outlandish views on a national platform, but also displays an exaggeration of the problem being discussed. Later in the segment, guest co-host Brigitte Gabriel is introduced to soon give a false statistic that 25% of all Muslims are radicalized, once more proving the buffoonery being fed by present day
The spread of Islam in Africa had taken course from a number of factors, including external and internal forces. After my analyzing of the spread of Islam in Africa, I have gather three main themes that stuck out during the expansion of Islam: Islam and trade, the conversion conditions of Islam, and the economics/political development involving Islam. These three themes provide great insight on how Islam started to spread through out Africa. Through trade the culture and religion of Islam was spread to many different areas. This correlates to the conversion of different people, which helped spread Islam. By these conversions Islam was able to establish Islamic states, which played a factor in the development of strong economic and political
Islamophobia has become a new topic of interest among social sciences, political leaders and media commentators. People amongst society have developed this phobia towards Islamic religion and people. It has become a novel “form of racism in Europe and American based on discrimination ...
The early indications are worrisome. Mosques have been defaced. Arab-owned businesses have been shot at. Arab Americans have faced verbal and physical abuse in the streets. Internet message boards burst with anti-Arab and anti-Muslim slogans and threats. To his credit, Attorney General John Ashcroft has clearly condemned this wave of violence and harassment. "Such reports of violence and threats," he said on September 13th, "are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated."