What Can Muslims Do To Change the Perception of Islam?

What Can Muslims Do To Change the Perception of Islam?

Muslims with a real understanding of Islam believe that the essence of the word Islam preaches peace, compassion, and tolerance of all religions and beliefs, and respect for human dignity. It is the basic principles of Islam.

Today, the world community is increasingly calling to prevent islamophobia around the world and to retrieve new forms of the peaceful coexistence. In the time of globalization, there are many examples of Muslims and non Muslims people who aim to change the perception of Islam.

In various cities of France, there are officially established committees against the rising islamophobia. For example, French committee against islamophobia began its work under the slogan “We are one nation.” The main purpose of this committee is to prevent desecrations Islamic shrines and mosques, as well as the attacks on Muslims. Nowadays, the next institutions have become very necessary tools to prevent islamophobia in countries with multinational societies.

New UNESCO initiative in the fight against Islamophobia detected that the main problem is the growth of islamophobia. Because of insufficient education of the youth about Islam nowadays; in the future it will be difficult to change. The school plays a key role in the formation of the internal settings of the youth. Therefore, to foresee the situation of the perception of Islam, the world community decides to start from the very beginning, from education.

Surely, to fight the religious intolerance does not mean only to speak about it at the official level and to make some formal and live dialogue to the society from the camera. Some media channels today with no chains of any control can spread some dubious and negative elements about Muslims and Islam to the public. Today there is no censorship in democratic countries, but there has to be some balance or contrast between the percentage of negative and positive information that comes into the community about Islam.

Media make a huge impact on the minds of people and is capable of forming some images in their head. Many of the negative perception of Islam depends on the association of some of the terms with negative meanings. For example, concepts such as terrorism and extremism, which are often closely associated with Muslim people and Islam. That is why specialists rightly believe that some correction of those definitions will create initially different reception of Muslims and Islam.

The current President of Afghanistan has said the following about islamophobia in one of his interview: “The evil of Islamophobia – it is really disturbing phenomenon that threatens the peace and coexistence among cultures and civilizations. I urge the leaders of the West, both politicians and the media, to resist Islamophobia in all its many forms and manifestations”.

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