RT Article
T1 Framing Muslims in the “War on Terror”: Representations of Ideological Violence by Muslim versus Non-Muslim Perpetrators in Canadian National News Media
JF Religions
VO 9
IS 9
SP 1
OP 26
A1 Kanji, Azeezah
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1586876376
AB This study compared representations of ideological violence by Muslim versus non-Muslim perpetrators in Canadian national news media (the Globe and Mail, National Post, and CBC). Both quantitative and qualitative disparities were examined. Acts of Muslim violence received 1.5 times more coverage, on average, than non-Muslim ones, and thwarted Muslim plots received five times more coverage. Muslim incidents were more likely to be labelled “terrorism” and linked to other episodes of violence, and Muslim perpetrators were more likely to be labelled by their religious and ethno-racial identities. These patterns in representation serve to stabilise the racial formations of the Canadian national security state in the “war on terror”.
K1 Canadian news media
K1 Islamophobia
K1 Framing
K1 Terrorism
DO 10.3390/rel9090274