The Western definition of liberated women is different from the one recognized by Muslim women in Islamic societies. A fact worth mentioning to the public is that the history of Islam is rich with women of great achievements in all walks of life as early as the spread of Islam in the seventh century, and that those women scholars vastly contributed to the Islamic civilization. Another favored exercise of the media is the association of Islam with violence and terrorism. The image of the Muslim produced especially by Hollywood movies is either that of terrorist, murderer, or bedouin who is totally incompetent in, or full of hatred to, the modern world. What is so disturbing about many movies is that they show, with absolutely no justification, all Muslims as being at war with the West.
Media reporters misuse the Islamic term jihad to mean a holy war.
In fact it does not. It means struggle against unjust cause. My point here is that the Western public is not provided with adequate and accurate information to make intelligent and fair judgments, and Muslims virtually have not made themselves available to get their part of the story across to the Western public. This, unfortunately, creates misleading mental images of Islam. The most deceiving and painful lie that can be ever reported is the claim that Islam approves terrorism or violence.