Asena Karipek — Portrayals of Jihad: A Cause of Islamophobia Author

25 published claims from this book.

• A factually distorted anti-jihad meme spread over fifty thousand times online
• A Qur’anic verse was distorted into an incitement to fight non-Muslims
• Al-Baghdadi uses this verse to justify attacks on non-Muslims, especially in the West. However, various Qur’anic commentators have interpreted this verse as a reference to a pre-Islamic king who…
• American commentators framed suicide bombing as repugnant and un-American
• By the end of the 19th century, Khan’s interpretation of jihad as defensive warfare became popular in the Middle East, especially in Egypt. This was due to the adoption of this ideal by Muhammad…
• Fear of the unfamiliar word jihad, not its meaning, drives American Islamophobia.
• Films shape viewers’ perceptions because they seem more authentic than other media.
• Ibn Taymiyya’s doctrines link Wahhabism and ISIS through takfir
• In general, disagreement among Muslims regarding the use of jihad has been deeply influenced by social and political contexts. In fact, in recent decades, many Muslims believe it is their right or…
• In their view, jihad is universal revolutionary struggle and that the modernists’ search for moral justifications for jihad is senseless because jihad is prescribed by the Qur’an. At the same…
• ISIS justifies violent jihad primarily with two verses from Surah Tawbah
• Jihad spans warfare, inner struggle, defending the oppressed, and serving parents
• Jihad, which has come to be perceived as ‘holy war’ in American media and by many Americans, is a hot topic of debate throughout the world but especially in the West.
• Mainstream American television has a history of misrepresenting jihad
• Media framing shapes American attitudes toward Islam and jihad
• Modern Islamic scholars define jihad as spiritual striving, not holy war
• More than 1,150 American films have defamed Muslims and Arabs.
• Most Islamic scholars reject jihad as a tool for forced conversion
• Pamela Geller’s anti-jihad bus ads framed Muslims as savages and killers of Jews.
• Prominent Islamophobes like Pamela Gellar, Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, Steven Emerson, and Frank Gaffney, as well as others, portray jihad as Muslims’ attempt to force non-Muslims to convert to…
• Representations of jihad in American film and television are also very relevant to how Americans view jihad and Islam.
• The holy war tradition is Western, not originally Islamic.
• The modern period also brought about a new ‘fundamentalist’ movement, which came with a reinterpretation of Islam and its own stance on jihad. The fundamentalists tended to focus less on legal…
• There is no shortage of jihad misrepresentations on social media. In February 2019, a meme featuring a handful of distorted translations of Qur’anic verses (including verses about jihad) along…
• Zionist-funded ad campaigns linked Muslims to savagery in US transit systems