Representation of Muslim in the UK: Islamophobia or legitimate concerns?

Islamophobia?


Extreme or irrational fear of all Islamic persons
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http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/07601-discrim-hc-islamophobia-web.pdf 

What were the main triggers for the increase in incidents of Islamophobia in the UK, at that time?

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http://www.fairuk.org/intro.htm

Why does this website exist?

This website was created for The Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism which is an annotation for FAIR. So, it's a place where people who are against discrimination and racism for Islamic people. It also provides information about Islamic people. On the front page of the website it says ' Raise Awareness ' so that is their main aim, having that can be shown to casual browsers who may of happened to have seen that site. It gives them a first impression of what they are about.

How does it attempt to counter and challenge negative media representations of Islam?

FAIR challenges the negative media representation of Islam as it is a forum so people can talk and discuss issues that may be concerning them. They have campaigns that people can sign up too and create their own campaigns so that they can try and stop the negative media representations. They have introduced POSITIVE images of faith so people can get a different perspective of Islam and not what they hear in the media. 

The website on a whole is about community and togetherness which is used to challenge the negative representations of the media about Islam. The website has very valid information about the religion and about what they do. Their aim is 'to work towards establishing a Safe, Just and Tolerant Britain in which Islamophobia and racism have no place.'

They have also introduced Media and Culture watch. This means that FAIR's Media & Popular Culture Watch monitors specific incidences of Islamophobia and issues of concern and/or interest to the multi-faith communities in Britain. This is a way  to counter any negative representations.  

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Research their representations of Muslims in the UK

Daily Mail.

BBC news website.

YR12 Cover work.

How much information is in circulation on the internet (in gigabytes)?

The number of people who could access the internet in 1995?
http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm (scroll to the bottom)
http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/03/31/internet-1995/

What proportion of the world’s population can now go online?

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/close-half-world-population-2016-cisco-154422156.html

The number of people who can access the internet in today?

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_access

How has the internet changed the following? 

• nature of information

http://www.todays-learners.com/

- We all are too reliant on the internet as we now use it for everything. In school we use it for teaching and learning new things. As it is a great way to access information, quickly.

• communication

http://www.intersectweb.org/2011/07/14/how-the-internet-has-changed-communication/

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/how-has-technology-changed-communication
- in my own view, communication has changed from the cause of the internet because as one wise person said : "we are alone together" because of the internet.

• privacy

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/internet-changed-privacy

http://www.nyu.edu/employees/resources-and-services/it-and-computer-support/online-privacy-and-safety.html

- I think that privacy on the internet isn't protected as much as it could be. It almost seems acceptable to put personal business on social networking sites and put card details online. I think we as a community/society are too naive 

• community

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/how-has-the-internet-changed-t.html

http://voices.yahoo.com/how-internet-has-changed-world-3010307.html

- People depend too much on the internet as now they can access anything. This is changing the community because there's hardly any interaction between people as everything is accessible online. People believe in this online community almost feels like another world.

• online safety

http://pollyc.hubpages.com/hub/how-the-internet-has-changed-our-family-life

- online safety has become an issue because everything has become available on the internet and there are loads of scams that can trick people into using it to put their details down. Scammers can target certain people in order to get their card details and use it for themselves. But online safety can relate to people broadcasting their whereabouts every minute, this can attract stalkers

• business

http://briangosur.hubpages.com/hub/The-Internet-Has-Completely-Changed-The-Way-We-Do-Business

http://smallbiztrends.com/2005/06/top-five-ways-internet-has-changed.html

• culture

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-40-history-arpanet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6207343/Ways-the-web-has-changed-the-world.html

• copyright

http://mashable.com/2011/03/24/copyright-law-enforcement/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10118823