British press blame for radicalization shifted toward extremist Islam itself

Evidence

When analysing the causes of radicalization offered by the British press, Baker and McEnery found an ‘increasing attribution of blame for radicalisation on extremist Islam – in 1998–2009 this occurred in 1 in 3 cases. By 2014 it is 2 in 3 cases’ (Baker and McEnery 2015a). — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 640

When analysing the causes of radicalization offered by the British press, Baker and McEnery found an ‘increasing attribution of blame for radicalisation on extremist Islam – in 1998–2009 this occurred in 1 in 3 cases. By 2014 it is 2 in 3 cases’ (Baker and McEnery 2015a). — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 635

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general ‘Islamophobia is a discourse of depluralization’ argument in the chapter and echoes the literature on how ‘radicalization’ talk homogenizes Muslims. — connects to: A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions; The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 237; Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 571 (+3 more)
• SHARE: The sharp 1-in-3 to 2-in-3 doubling over a fifteen-year window is a specific enough data point to share with a press-coverage or media-effects researcher.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 640; Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 635

Related

• British official dossier linked its own foreign policy to Muslim radicalization (similarity 0.84)
• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions (similarity 0.84)
• The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values (similarity 0.84)
• Yearly Islamophobia mentions in the British press nearly doubled after 2010 (similarity 0.84)
• Media bias against Muslims remains as prevalent today as in 1997 (similarity 0.84)
• Discussion of Islamophobia in British media increased and grew more serious over time. (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobic content has shifted from crude cartoons to globally shared narratives and institutional suspicion. (similarity 0.83)
• British press underrepresents Muslims and portrays them as exotic or aberrant (similarity 0.83)
• Radicalization anxieties drive integration discourse despite Muslims being integrated. (similarity 0.82)
• Ninety-one per cent of press representations of Islam were negative (similarity 0.81)
• British Muslims were reduced to terrorists or apologists, collapsing into one stereotype. (similarity 0.81)
• The term Islamophobia was nearly absent from the British press during 1998–2003. (similarity 0.81)
• Media reattributed the Iranian situation to timeless Muslim traits rather than real causes (similarity 0.81)
• British press language linked Islamophobia to racism and institutional forms (similarity 0.81)
• Post-2000 European Islamophobia emerged from terror, media, and the war on terror (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language #complicates (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 571
• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions #expands (0.78)
• The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values #expands (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 237
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link #complicates (0.72) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282