| Summary: | The paper aims to describe and analyse the pattern of discourse presented by two non-government organisations to counter Islamophobia on Facebook: UNI-A (Centre Interfederal Institution for Combating Discrimination) and CCIB (Collective contre Islamophobie en Belgique). Despite the independence of the UNI-A, they have a direct mandate from the government and consist of diverse Belgian religious adherents, atheists, and political preferences, while the CCIB consists of Belgian Muslim activists. The data are gathered from the organisation’s postings on Facebook between 2016 and 2018. The ethnomethodology and dialogical network are applied to analyse the structure immediately held by the organisation in order to generate a history of their media activities. I argue that the role of these organisations is vast in counteracting and counterbalancing the issue of Islamophobia, which causes many acts of violence. Through their discourse in countering Islamophobia, we can discover the different patterns of these two organisations in terms of posting messages on Facebook.
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