Embedding plural Muslim constituencies serves as prophylactic against unwitting anti-Muslim bias

Evidence

While these examples perhaps take us away from a direct discussion of racism and Islamophobia, in the way that was elaborated earlier, it is still worth noting how much importance the paper attributes to the value of embedding plural constituencies within its journalism, perhaps as a prophylactic against unwitting anti-Muslim sentiment. This publication is, then, unique in its approach for not only does it seek to afford space in which to cultivate the representation of religion in public discourse, it does so through a consciously Muslim interlocutor. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 93

Categorization

• QUESTION: Meer hesitates (‘perhaps’) on whether representation is a prophylactic — his uncertainty is exactly the empirical gap the MOC thread needs to probe.
• XREF: connects to: Muslim journalists’ framing power, not mere presence, distinguishes educative coverage from token comment — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 78; The Islam-terrorism link is a culturally embedded hard discourse resistant to contestation — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 107

Related

• Muslim journalists’ framing power, not mere presence, distinguishes educative coverage from token comment (similarity 0.90)
• Even senior journalists dismissing Islamophobia frame it alongside racism they do accept (similarity 0.82)
• News organizations differ in how they frame Muslim religion as a public issue (similarity 0.82)
• Hired Muslim journalists are confined to Muslim comment and never shape story framing (similarity 0.81)
• Broadcast journalists frame Islamophobia as racism, unlike centre-right print journalists. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamic studies’ marginality lets media spread racist caricatures unchecked (similarity 0.79)
• Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood — Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim Question’ (similarity 0.79)
• Pluralism is often invoked to justify policing speech about other groups’ beliefs. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim bias is denied legitimacy by framing Muslimness as voluntarily chosen. (similarity 0.79)
• Media and political elites profit from stoking anti-Muslim fears (similarity 0.78)
• Mainstream media coverage of Islam was overwhelmingly negative by 2015 (similarity 0.78)
• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage (similarity 0.78)
• The Islam-terrorism link is a culturally embedded hard discourse resistant to contestation (similarity 0.78)
• Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims (similarity 0.78)