In the contemporary world, Islam is one of the discussed religions in the global media. The followers of this religion Islam (Muslims) were significantly targeted in the world. We have witnessed the incidents in European countries how the Muslims were defamed on their Muslim identity. The reason that is probably imprinted by these designed actions is scoring their electoral gains and attaining political power. The second thing that contributed to this global hatred and design is to overrun the resources of the Muslim nations. To shape the opinion of the citizens against Muslims these organizations use the media to spread the propaganda against this religion. In these media experiments, misleading and fabricated notions were associated with Islam and its followers. Through these media trials, a corrupt and incorrect theory is created in the society against the Muslims.
Muslims were associated with violence and pessimistic activities in society. Astonishingly, the Muslim Nations are soundless on these concerns very seldom at the individual level some statements are coming against the fabricated scheme against Islam. There is no Muslim Nation that has dedicated the full Ministry to counter these mistaken notions against Islam or Muslims. Instead, these Nations are energetic in disseminating their culture and other materialistic affairs.
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The situation of Muslims where they live in minority are more shocking their voices were crushed by linking them terrorism and violence. In these countries, measures are in velocity to treat them as secondary citizens and infringe their rights. The central media houses are showing bogus propaganda against these Muslims to increase the animosity against them in society. Every day debates are telecasted in which the Muslims are defamed and sometimes they are personally insulted. This propaganda against Muslims gets more energy when there is an election in that respective country. It is because of this false propaganda this particular community has to prove their Nationalism and obedience every time. The way these media channels are backed by these forces who want their electoral gains creates such a negative environment that pains most Muslim youth. This all is done to divert the attention of the people from the actual issues. When the politicians fail in delivering the services to the citizens it is the time they play emotional politics. And by this tool of emotional politics and the process of Amygdala hijacking, they try to accomplish their political interests.
This all scenario affects a lot to the Muslim youth affects their thinking development and their personality. The Muslim youth feels suffocated voiceless, Powerless, and hopeless and gets more alienated from the mainstream. In this state, the Muslim youth must understand the rationale behind this design. Instead of reacting to the situation the Muslim youth should analyze the situation with a sharp mindset and control their emotions by using emotional intelligence. Sometimes propaganda against a specific community is also a design to provoke the targeted community and then tag them with anti-social elements. Hence in this negative situation how a Muslim youth escape from this pessimistic atmosphere and use his or her energy in the social building. Below we mention some ways how a Muslim youth engages him or her in social development.
The first thing the Muslim youth need to change is their mindset from a victim mentality to a responsible citizen. Besides this, the Muslim youth need to ponder on his creation the purpose of life. He must set a goal to serve humanity which is also one of the key messages of Islam. Apart from this, they need to ask questions themselves about how I can change myself and the people around me. They must think about the positive change that can shine on him, his community, and become the means of social construction.
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The next is seeking Knowledge it is a very important tool through which an individual can make much progress. It is very disheartening the attitude of Muslims towards seeking knowledge is not much appreciated. The entire Muslim nations are lagging in education as compared to other Nations of the world. It is well documented in several reports that the terrible picture of education among Muslims around the world. Hence instead of reacting to the cold environment with emotions, the Muslim youth must engage themselves in attaining knowledge and respond to the false propaganda with solid arguments in a peaceful manner. Besides this, the Muslim youth should also work for self-respect and the respect of the members of the society in respect of class, gender and religion. They need to focus on the communication with the people of other religion and aware them about the true meaning of Islam and try to clear their misconceptions and their doubts on the Muslim community.
Apart from this, the Muslim youth needs to identify their role in society. The creator has created every human being with specific talent and intellect. These Muslim youth need to cultivate and polish their talents and use them for the service of humanity. In this process, the Muslim youth should avoid the negative comparison attitude with others as this attitude of negative comparison lands nowhere and also slow down productivity. In addition to this the Muslim youth need to connect themselves with social working organisations that give them to chance to work for the subaltern sections of the society. The Muslim youth need to focus on goodness and should surround the good, visionary people and also avoid watching those cResponisibiltyharnels that spread hate and venom in the name of development.
Author is a research scholar, and can be mailed at farooqmajeed19@gmail.com
