Disparate media coverage of Ukraine exposed the low global value of Muslim bodies.

Evidence

For Muslims who have endured these colonial and postcolonial wars and the War on Terror crusades of today, Ukraine is a painful blow. It is another reminder that their bodies, their beings, are worth less—and too often, are worthless. It is impossible for them, and those cognizant of the lurid and lucid double standards emanating from the conflict in Ukraine, to dream of a uniform standard applied across race, religion, and the realpolitik in between. It is impossible to imagine a world where the theaters of resistance in the Casbah or Kashmir receive the same light as the struggles in Kyiv. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1207

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• SEED: Angles: a compare-and-contrast piece on how Western liberal media humanizes white war victims while erasing Muslim-majority ones.

Related

• Ukraine coverage exposed the unequal valuation of Muslim versus European lives (similarity 0.89)
• Liberal media voices joined populist racism in ranking Ukrainian lives above Muslim ones (similarity 0.85)
• Mainstream Western media framed Ukrainian refugees as more civilized than Arab and Afghan ones. (similarity 0.83)
• Western media humanized Ukrainian refugees with named detailed stories (similarity 0.82)
• Journalism associations formally condemned racialized weighing of Ukrainian versus nonwhite casualties. (similarity 0.82)
• Western immigration solidarity applied to Ukrainians but not to Muslim refugees (similarity 0.81)
• Western media rendered Syrian refugees faceless compared to Ukrainians (similarity 0.80)
• Whiteness in newsrooms skews coverage toward white suffering and away from nonwhite refugees (similarity 0.80)
• Calling out the racial double standard falls short of the humanizing coverage refugees need (similarity 0.79)
• Media empathy for war victims correlates with whiteness (similarity 0.79)
• Academic literature on Islamophobia erases Muslims’ lived experience and flattens them into stereotypes (similarity 0.79)
• Media coverage humanizes Muslims as perpetrators but erases them as victims (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim self-determination struggles are demonized where Ukrainian resistance is praised (similarity 0.79)
• Mainstream media framed Ukraine as more civilized than Iraq or Afghanistan (similarity 0.79)
• War crimes against nonwhite Muslims draw far less Western support than Ukraine’s (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Muslim lives are less grievable than American ones in public memory #expands (0.70) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 378