Introduction
In America, some of the examples of stereotyping against the Muslims include the thinking that Muslims are terrorists. Such beliefs have affected the way the Muslims are treated in the United States and the rest of the world. The following discussion suggests what can be done in order to reduce these stereotypes in America.
First, one the solution to end this dehumanization in America is to kill religious and cultural illiteracy, and to ensure the birth of an actual pluralistic society. The United States can demonstrate that indeed it is open to all the people, which include Muslims, Christians, and Jews among the others, in the same way without having any exceptions. This means that all the people coming from different religions in America should be treated equally without showing favoritism to the others.
Secondly, since majority of the American citizens get more information about Islam and Muslims through the media, it is important to ensure that the media shift from its negative portrayals of Muslims as terrorists to showing them as being human, nuanced and emotionally complex, and this would not only lessen stereotypes but also improve the American citizen diplomacy with the Muslims domestically and internationally. A shift in portraying Muslims positively can assist in enhancing a greater sense of positive identity development for the Muslims in America, and thus improving democratic processes through the provision of public access to positive portrayals of the Muslim.
Last, but not least, the other way of ending discrimination against the Muslim is the use of campaigns that can foster in events such as comedy. The use of comedy is an example that has been used in Tennessee to fight against such stereotypes. Such events help to portray a different face of the Islam so as to make them being considered as normal human beings by the rest of the world.
