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               media channels have told their        Conclusion
               statesmen: “Soon the American         The spread of the influence of
               people will wake up by th call        Islam  and  the  widespread
               of prayer”.                           inclination    of    the    West
                  On  the  other  hand,  the         towards  its  religious  and
               emigration  of  Muslims  to           spiritual messages alarmed the
               Western  countries  has  had  a       Western  countries,  and  they
               great  impact  on  the  West          used  psychological  operations
               awareness  of  Islam,  and  this      to tarnish the image of Islam in
               has  made  Europeans  and             public opinion.
               Americans       more      closely        After    the    collapse    of
               acquainted  with  the  divine         communism,         the      West
               teachings  of  Islam,  and  this      considered  only  the  ideology
               has  accelerated  the  growing        of Islam as a serious problem,
               trend of Islam in the West.           and by presenting the clash of
                  What  is  important  here  is      rival  civilizational  identities,
               that the vision of the people of      referred to the confrontation of
               the West has been strengthened        religious and secular values as
               despite the anti-Islamic propaganda,   the  arena  of  historical  rivalry
               and such propaganda no longer         between Islam and Christianity
               has  the  same  negative  effects     and called it the Cold War.
               as  in  the  past;  therefore,  the      Accordingly, many Western
               West,  after  deep  study  and        parties, thinkers, and politicians
               research  on  Islam  for  many        cite the spread of Islamism and
               years, has well understood that       the presence of Muslims in the
               the religion of Islam, far from       West  as  unusual,  and  by
               self-made  human  prejudices,         proclamation      of     violent,
               invites  all  human  beings  to       unchangeable and fundamentalist
               true purity and happiness, and        try  to  change    the  facts  of
               ultimately  the  God  of  the         Islam in the public mind of the
               uniVerse. (Alizadeh et al, 1397)      world  in  various  titles  and
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