The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.
Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
The media's about to become a lot more effective.
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.
To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise.
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has opened up the monopoly over the interpretation of Islam that used to solely belong to the religious class.