Islamophobia is one of the latent problems in many moslem country, including where majority population Muslim, such as Indonesia. Hatred and fear Islam, can disturb harmony society. This article describes dangers Islamophobia, some strategies which be taken to handle it. The aims this study are explore what challenges opportunities Indonesian people regarding these problems. uses theory concept...

In the post-Suharto Reformasi era, Chinese Indonesians are enjoying new freedom to express their culture. The ethnic Chinese number around three million, making up about 1.5% of the nation’s population (Suryadinata 2004c: vii). Chinese Muslims constitute a minority religious group within this minority ethnic group, and little research has been done on them. Jacobsen (2005) puts forward a pessim...

today’s western accuse islam and muslims to violence and radicalism to frighten people of islam. in the interim however radical performance some of groups that know themselves muslim, it has not ineffective for bad picture of mohammads religion, but for two reasons this subject not related to islamic current: first, majority of muslims and islamic religions don’t confirm these groups and hate t...

Worldwide, Islam is the second most populous religion and, in many countries in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, it is the predominant religion. The population of Muslims in the United States is projected to dramatically increase in the next few decades. Understanding the role of Islam for people who believe in and follow Islam-Muslims-will provide nurses with important pe...

As societies transform from a predominantly traditional to a predominantly modem system they tend to experience considerable demographic changes. Ansley Coale (1984) notes that this "transformation is the substitution of slow growth achieved with low fertility and mortality for slow growth maintained with relatively high fertility and mortality rates." Islam is one of the world’s major monothei...

circumstances and development of Muslim nations has been the subject of intense debate among Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Western critics of Islam or “Islamic civilization,” such as Bernard Lewis (1990) and Samuel Huntington (1993), have decried its economic irrationality, incompatibility with democracy, and failure to separate religion and state; while scholars such as Edward Said (2001:11) ...

Muslims have never before occupied such a central position in the British media, given their general absence from more ‘normalised’ representational positions such as in popular soaps, literature and reality television. Recent studies reveal the primarily negative ‘hypervisibility’ of Muslims across the media, which has encouraged negative social representations. Drawing upon relevant concepts ...

the main objective of the present paper is to study the trend of emergence and influence of islamophobia in today'srussia. the effective factor that distinguishesrussiafrom other western countries in encountering the muslims are distinct historical features and extreme nationalism (chauvinism. the chauvinism are concerned about the growth of muslim population inrussia. although this factor...