This paper aims to analyze how the Romanian press, after 2011, reflects several major events in the Muslim World, events with worldwide impact. Also, it is an analysis of the correct/incorrect use in the written online press of terms such as Islam, political Islam, fundamentalism, terrorism, revolution, democracy. After the events in MENA countries (Middle East and North Africa) in late 2010, the beginning of 2011, the Romanian press has become more active and more attentive on this area. For a large part of the Romanian media and then, public opinion, the Muslim world is reduced, obviously wrong, to Arab world. The press was tributary to the image of "terrorist community of Muslims" after the attacks on the WTC in 2001, so the Muslims were considered from now on as possible terrorist threat vectors. This and other stereotypical images present in the Western world also prevails in articles in Romania journals. For example, the lack of knowledge about a Muslim lifestyle makes many non-Muslims to consider him not only a deeply religious man, but a fundamentalist one and, moreover, many are puting the sign of equal between fundamentalism and terrorism. Most of the stories in Romanian print media about the events that have swept Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria etc., subsumed to the phenomenon called the Arab Spring are incomplete, often show lack of knowledge about history, geography, ethnic or religious composition of those countries, as part of the Muslim world. The paper consider the cultural and sociological, political perspectives, on how the image of the Muslim World is formed in the Romanian written press, with his update form online, but the areas are bounded in space and time: I refer to the countries of North Africa and Middle East, after 2011.
This paper aims to analyze how the Romanian press, after 2011, reflects several major events in the Muslim World, events with worldwide impact. Also, it is an analysis of the correct/incorrect use in the written online press of terms such as Islam, political Islam, fundamentalism, terrorism, revolution, democracy. After the events in MENA countries (Middle East and North Africa) in late 2010, the beginning of 2011, the Romanian press has become more active and more attentive on this area. For a large part of the Romanian media and then, public opinion, the Muslim world is reduced, obviously wrong, to Arab world. The press was tributary to the image of "terrorist community of Muslims" after the attacks on the WTC in 2001, so the Muslims were considered from now on as possible terrorist threat vectors. This and other stereotypical images present in the Western world also prevails in articles in Romania journals. For example, the lack of knowledge about a Muslim lifestyle makes many non-Muslims to consider him not only a deeply religious man, but a fundamentalist one and, moreover, many are puting the sign of equal between fundamentalism and terrorism. Most of the stories in Romanian print media about the events that have swept Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria etc., subsumed to the phenomenon called the Arab Spring are incomplete, often show lack of knowledge about history, geography, ethnic or religious composition of those countries, as part of the Muslim world. The paper consider the cultural and sociological, political perspectives, on how the image of the Muslim World is formed in the Romanian written press, with his update form online, but the areas are bounded in space and time: I refer to the countries of North Africa and Middle East, after 2011.
MUSLIMS IN THE ROMANIAN MEDIA, AFTER 2011. A FRAME FROM INSIDE OF A REVOLUTION / Gajdo, ANA-MARIA. - STAMPA. - 3, Section: Political Sciences and International Relations:(2014), pp. 159-171. (Intervento presentato al convegno The International Scientific Conference Communication, Context, Interdisciplinarity tenutosi a TÂRGU-MUREŞ, ROMANIA nel · 23-24 ottobre 2014).
MUSLIMS IN THE ROMANIAN MEDIA, AFTER 2011. A FRAME FROM INSIDE OF A REVOLUTION
GAJDO, ANA-MARIA
2014
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze how the Romanian press, after 2011, reflects several major events in the Muslim World, events with worldwide impact. Also, it is an analysis of the correct/incorrect use in the written online press of terms such as Islam, political Islam, fundamentalism, terrorism, revolution, democracy. After the events in MENA countries (Middle East and North Africa) in late 2010, the beginning of 2011, the Romanian press has become more active and more attentive on this area. For a large part of the Romanian media and then, public opinion, the Muslim world is reduced, obviously wrong, to Arab world. The press was tributary to the image of "terrorist community of Muslims" after the attacks on the WTC in 2001, so the Muslims were considered from now on as possible terrorist threat vectors. This and other stereotypical images present in the Western world also prevails in articles in Romania journals. For example, the lack of knowledge about a Muslim lifestyle makes many non-Muslims to consider him not only a deeply religious man, but a fundamentalist one and, moreover, many are puting the sign of equal between fundamentalism and terrorism. Most of the stories in Romanian print media about the events that have swept Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria etc., subsumed to the phenomenon called the Arab Spring are incomplete, often show lack of knowledge about history, geography, ethnic or religious composition of those countries, as part of the Muslim world. The paper consider the cultural and sociological, political perspectives, on how the image of the Muslim World is formed in the Romanian written press, with his update form online, but the areas are bounded in space and time: I refer to the countries of North Africa and Middle East, after 2011.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
