Muslim world needs a new mindset to face modern challenges

• Main Author: Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: BP1 Islam; BP134.S3 Quran and Science; BP188.16 Wasatiyyah. Moderation In Islam
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/94703/1/94703_Muslim%20world%20needs%20a%20new%20mindset.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/94703/

In a world full of contending ideologies, Muslim communities throughout the world face an enormous amount of challenges in preserving their identity, faith and culture. The world media which is under the control of some powerful western conglomerates, projects Muslims as an uncultured and backward people. In many occasions, leadership crisis and other political upheavals that happen in Muslim countries are blown out of proposition and reported in a condescending way so that the world would see the Muslims as a problematic bunch of people. The sort of message it intends to narrate to the world is one that depicts as though the whole world cries for peace, while the Muslim world wants war and chaos. Ever since 9/11, Western media takes an unfriendly attitude towards the Muslim community by calling them with all sorts of obscure names like terrorists, extremists, fundamentalists and Jihadis, etc. Western journalists also use derogatory terms and caricatures to show that the Prophet of Islam as a warmonger who promotes violence and killing of the innocents.