Usage of humor to Overshadow Islamophobia in the World
Farzana Kausar
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology
Dr. Wajid Zulqarnain
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology
Abstract:
After the 9/11 incident in the United States, a hatred gap arose between the Americans and Americans Muslims. Many Muslim stand-up comedians started their efforts to decrease this tension through humorous performances and comic screenplays. Also, Muslim comedians are neutralizing negative social discrimination between Muslims and another world to reduce the impact of Islamophobia in the world. For data analysis, Linguistic Inquiry & Word Count (LIWC) used to analyses the positive emotions, negative emotions, and emotional tone. Findings exhibit that Muslim stand-up comedians are contributing to lessen the stereotyping discernments and disliked comments about Muslim identity globally. It is concluded that comedy has also helped in comforting the audiences that Arab and Muslim are not unpatriotic and adversarial to the United States or to the rest of the world.
Keywords: Muslim, Comedians, Stand-up comedy, Islamophobia
