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Islam has the second largest following of any religion and its adherents are found in substantial numbers all over the world.
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Islam has the second largest following of any religion and its adherents are found in substantial numbers all over the world. Despite its huge following, Islam is poorly understood in the West, Europe and the United Kingdom. The religion and the practices of Islam have often been seen in a negative light in the Western world. This can be attributed to the effects that Islamic fundamentalists have had on society through their attacks on the Western world but the origins of these negative sentiments go much further back in history with past rivalry between Christians and Muslims. For this reason in recent years westerners have developed a concept known as 'Islamophobia'. Even though the word may be a recent finding the concept identified by Edward Said in his pioneering work on Orientalism (Said, 1978) has shown these ideological and cultural frameworks are not a new phenomenon but historically...
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