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As you can see in the video, most people don't know much about Islam, and they say,
"Islam is IS," and "Islam is not terrorism?"As such, most people tend to apply the image
of terrorism by a small number of Islamic extremists to all Muslims. But ordinary Muslims
are just usual people like in the video. That is why we should not try to condemn and
discriminate against Islam as a whole based on the evil behavior of a few Islamic
extremists.

In the poster, a Muslim woman is blocked by an x called Islamophobia, as many hijab-
clad women are discriminated against and suppressed for being Muslims. The woman in
the poster embodies the image of a Muslim who is condemned and alienated because of
halal food and hijab. Furthermore, Muslims suffer from the prejudice that "all Muslims
are Muslim extremists." According to a 2019 survey of Protestants in South Korea, 67
percent of Protestant respondents recognized Muslims as IS terrorist groups. The Sunni-
Shiite religious conflict and the resulting refugee acceptance problem create a negative
view of Muslims, and terrorism by extreme religious groups holds negative stereotypes
about Muslims. In the 2017 German People's Perception Change Survey at Leipzig
University, 45 percent of the respondents said that Muslim entry into Germany should be
banned. In addition, 39 percent of respondents said they opposed Muslims entering the
United States in the survey about Muslim immigration conducted by BBC in 2018. The
word "Islamophobia” is emphasized on the poster, which refers to a phenomenon in which
people feel scared or disgusted by Islamic cultures and Muslims. In London in 2018, the
UK independence party staged a massive protest against Islam, and anti-racist activists
from the Socialist party staged a demonstration against discrimination against Muslims.
Similarly, in Dresden, Germany, Pegida staged an anti-Islamic demonstration in 2017.
Despite many of these anti-Islamic events, it is not right to view the entire Muslim
population in terms of discrimination and disgust because of some Muslim terrorist
incidents. At the bottom of the poster is the phrase # I AM NOT I.S., # I AM MUSLIM,
which was inspired by the Charlie Hebdo terrorist incident and the “I am professor”
incident. The Charlie Hebdo terrorist incident occurred in 2015 because of a magazine
satirizing Muhammad. In the “I am professor” incident, a middle school teacher who
showed a magazine about Muhammad in Charlie Hebdo was killed by a Muslim. Both
incidents posted #Je suis charlie, meaning I am charlie, and # Je suis prof, which means I
am a professor on SNS and used the hashtag to stage protests. The poster's # I AM NOT
I.S., # I AM MUSLIM, along with the phrase below it, visualizes events related to Islam
and signifies the urgency of coexistence between Islam and other cultures.
Recently, anti-French protests have taken place in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh,
calling for a French boycott and the resignation of French President Macron. The constant
cause of these conflicts stems from people's inability to accept each other's culture. We
should abandon stereotypes about certain cultures and unite to create a harmonious society.

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