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depends on a similar research approach, by using Islam
and Muslims keywords.
One of the top Islamic topics that this research
mentioned is “how women are portrayed in the Quran, and
whether gender oppression is an inherent trait of Islam.
This also shows that the representations of Muslims and
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Islam are gendered”.
The researchers reached for a conclusion that the topics
related to Islam and Muslims are increasing with time, but
Muslims are taking defensive positions against
discrimination and accusations, instead of dealing with
deep intellectual topics related to the Muslim’s needs, as
in previous years, in which they dealt with geographical
context in Sweden during the analysis of social data. It is
appropriate to say here, that we can set the research limits,
as place, time and language, and many more attributes.
Adding to analyze Social Data from a universal scale,
we can also indentify specific known people who impact
on the public streaming, and then investigate their
followers’ attitudes, by analyzing their common
characteristics and trying to understand their personal
circumstances surrounding any external influence.
As in the “Exmuslim” trend (exmuslim hashtag) which
has grown widely since last year, that expresses atheists
or agnostics concerns. In which thousands of posts have
been published from the Islamic world, although the data
showed that the campaign was from abroad. It should be
noted that, the bigger percent of the publications through
this hashtag were retweeted, and not for the original
ones, which means that the republication is the bulk of
this campaign.

1. Törnberg, 2016.