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Title:
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MEDIA AND MULTICULTURALISM |
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Author(s):
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Kishwar Sultana |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-40-3 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers, Nik Bessis and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Media, Medina Charter, Multiculturalism |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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57 |
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Last Page:
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64 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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We are in an age when information technology and mass media serves as an entity of its own and is one of the most powerful tools serving in humanity. The global media has the privilege to uphold independent thinking process and freedom of speech thereby extending impartial status to diverse cultural and religious groups without promoting any specific ethnic, religious, or cultural values. Social mistrust and prejudice, common vices of multiculturalism can be dispelled with tolerance and respect through the means of a cognizant global media committed to peace making through portrayal of a balanced and objective perspective of cultural diversity. The Holy Quran states, O mankind, We created you from a single pair of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that you may know each other [49:13]. In this regard, this paper will reflect on the vast potential for the media to be utilized between ethnic, religious, or cultural communities. It will discuss the need for the Media to underscore the pluralistic aspects of religion specifically those enjoined by the Prophet Mohammad SAW. It will highlight Islam's teachings on peace in a multicultural environment as prescribed in the Medina Charter which is a source for answers to many of todays issues and a supreme blend of peaceful cohabitation through the doctrine of tolerance, justice and civil liberties. It is essential that the Global Media adapts these excellences of Medina Charter, which is still in accordance to the International Conventions on Human Rights. |
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