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Terrorism is negative about a Dutch Muslim population
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Dutch citizens to see news about terrorism, are anxious and think negative about the Dutch society and the integration of Muslims there. Terrorism makes people less tolerant towards Muslims.
Since the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001 Western countries have been under the spell of terrorism. New Media messages about the world almost continuously past attacks and their consequences. But, what is the impact on ordinary citizens like you and me?
Media coverage of terrorists
Terrorism affects many. Often hundreds of people at the scene of a terrorist attack and there are thousands of people indirectly available via the media often shortly after the attack reports are from the affected area. Media make it possible that people who are not physically present, are witnessing terrorism. What impact has this on them? And, given the fact that many perpetrators of terrorist attacks are Muslim, then how we respond to the Muslim population?
In recent study examined the influence of media messages about terrorism on the image that Dutch citizens of their multicultural society and develop the integration of Muslims. Hundreds of indigenous, adult Dutch were several news images visible. The half saw images of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, on a fees only company in Hadera in Israel and schoolchildren in Beslan in Russia. The other half looked at images of highlights of the Olympic Summer Games in Athens. Then both groups received half of the people a 'positive' article about the successful integration of Muslims in multicultural Netherlands, while the other half a negative article was read stating that integration has failed.
Muslims in a negative light
The results of the research shows that news reports about terrorist attacks in the world citizens anxious and more negative towards Muslims in his own country wonder.Terrorism makes people scared, even people who are not physically in an attack are present. Subjects who saw the images terrorism, said more feelings of anxiety, anger and depression than those who experienced the images of the Olympic Games. Moreover, subjects that images looked about the Olympic Games, the average even agree with the positive and negative article about the integration of Muslims. The people who saw the terrorist images were precisely agree with the negative article and disagree with the positive article. It seems that citizens via the media are confronted with terrorist attacks by Muslim groups, united negation thoughts about the entire Muslim population.
Halfway through the investigation, the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh place. He was in Amsterdam and murdered by a Muslim. This event is included in the investigation and how the Dutch view was responding to a terrorist act in their own country. The results show that people by the murder of Van Gogh negative start thinking about the multicultural society and the extent to which Muslims are integrated. This confirms that the Dutch faced with terrorist attacks perpetrated in their own country or elsewhere in the world, anxiety and negative thinking going on the integration of Muslims in society.
Bang for the death
How can this be explained? The researchers believe that news about terrorism, people unknowingly to their own mortality recalls. In a word which subjects had to complete words, the people who had seen images terrorism and people who after the murder of Van Gogh took part, the word 'gra_' slightly more often as' grave 'or' joke '. This may indicate that they are indeed in their thoughts are with death. New Media on terrorism messages often unconscious thoughts of pain and death to citizens. Since most people prefer to die from the road, the impact that they are against the person who caused the deadly situation. In the case of a terrorist attack people are so against the perpetrators of the attack.
What is striking from this study is that people are not only against the actual perpetrators, but against the whole group to which the perpetrators belong. In the entire Muslim population whether there are individuals guilty or not. This phenomenon has to do with the psychological principle of "in-and out” group. People are naturally inclined to believe the same people and culture, called the ingroup, and to favor people with a different view and culture, known as outgroup, at a disadvantage.
This is more activated when the dead are remembered. Thus people with a terrorist attack and therefore the dead are remembered, Muslims, who belong to the outgroup, negative rate.
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www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=379&PID=1859&IID=611, islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/06/netherlands-44-of-terrorism-suspects.html
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