This research is about Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the President of
the United States Barrack Obama’s speech at the Islamic Society of Baltimore in
Maryland mosque. It is a qualitative research method with descriptive design and
method by Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis theory. The
Fairclough’s CDA consists of three elements: text, discourse practice, and
sociocultural practice. This research is aimed to describe and reveal the
representation toward Muslims-American in the United States by interpreting the
speech text of Obama. Based on the data analysis, the writer selected 18 from 69
paragraph as final data. Then, the main issues that writer analyzed are Muslim
representation in America, hate crimes against religions, and the Extremist group
(ISIS). The researcher finds that Barrack Obama as the speaker represents
Muslim-American in the Positive perspective which is seen by the sentences that
arise to fix the misunderstand about Muslim-American. He also gives solutions to
fight the extremist group who wants to propagate the nation. In short, this research
concludes that speaker tries to hold on in the principal of religious freedom to
make the United States stronger without any distraction from the threat of
terrorism.

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