A reporter reframed an alleged hate-crime murder as a women’s-rights issue.

Evidence

Nina Burleigh tried to balance her previous coverage of the incident by publishing an article on the Time website titled, “Shaima Alawadi’s Murder: A Hate Crime against Women?,” in which she argued that “Domestic violence against women is a plague on all nations and cultures. It is certainly not limited to Islamic-refugee communities. But American authorities need to pay closer attention to the plight of women in these communities.” — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 575

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Shows the pivot from Islamophobia to gendered framing — exactly the ‘us’ relocation the reading purpose seeks.

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