Cornered Islamic Society: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Islamophobic Memes

<em>In the era before internet, memes could take form of posters containing messages, invitations, and even propaganda. Propagandists manipulated those discourses presented them at public events such as theatres festivals. It has evolved into computational propaganda using media popular in modern era. Muslims are effortless targets for offensive memes, which have been going on last decade. This prejudice become a familiar issue internet users vandalizes image links to all social problems that transpire society. study examined Islamophobic theme transmitted international memetic sites. Popular were analyzed critical discourse analysis break down phenomenon based visual, textual, motives. The findings demonstrated meme creators utilized hottest induce ill idea demonizing Muslim society tend alter information their favour. Memes with Islamophobia often included provocative sentences satirize teachings Islam accompanied by words collocate aspects terror, terrorism, radical, extremism, violence, abuse. That influenced opinions damaged target meme, this method was remarkably efficacious, evidenced large amount support obtained anonymous In addition, distributed forums, where forum ensured privacy meme's sender without worrying his insults cyberspace would affect real world.</em>