阿拉伯人或穆斯林在一般人的觀念中傾向負面形象，本文試從歷史背景探討造成如此刻板形象的原因並釐清事實，同時舉出在東西方文明衝突的氣氛中，阿拉伯穆斯林因人們的誤解與未解的仇恨而被貼上「恐怖份子」標籤的無奈。

People usually think the Arabs or Muslims have negative personalities. In this article, I try to identify the historical reasons for the formation of the stereotype and clarify the fact. Arab-Muslims are labeled as terrorists because of misunderstandings and unknotted hatreds between Western and Muslim world which were developed from the clash of civilization and really depressed the Arab-Muslims.