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Historical Misrepresentation of Islam and Muslim: A Descriptive Review of Hollywood
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to find out the historical roots, which gave birth to tarnished depiction of Muslim world in Holly wood movies. Hollywood movies are offering a consistent stereo typical image and vilified/abusive picture of Arab Muslim across the decades. It is necessary to find out the historical roots which gave birth to discolored depiction of Muslim world in Hollywood movies. Researcher has adopted qualitative method of descriptive review of Hollywood. After a descriptive review of Hollywood It is summed up that although all races may be depicted in negative way one time or another, but some races specifically Arabs and Arab-Americans are all time victims of indecent depiction. History depicts number of apple of discords i.e crusades of Islam and Christianity, role of colonolisataion, post II world war scenario and Neo-Colonialism; shifting of power-pillars from Europe to America in terms of misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims
Authors
Dr. Abida Noureen
Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Shabana Nazar
Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Nayyer Mustafa
Ph.D. Scholar, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
