Islamic studies’ marginality lets media spread racist caricatures unchecked

Evidence

Precisely this marginality, this willed irrelevance for the general culture, of Islamic studies makes it possible for scholars to go on doing what they have been doing, and for the media to take over the dissemination of racist caricatures of the Islamic peoples. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 325

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mainstream media gave Islamophobic commentators hundreds of appearances with minimal scrutiny.

Related

• Media coverage of Islam systematically obscures Western actions against Muslims (similarity 0.86)
• Mainstream American media saturated prime-time television with generic Muslim caricatures. (similarity 0.85)
• Media Islam images derive from geopolitical experts, not academic scholarship (similarity 0.84)
• Islamic studies remains exempt from scholarly norms applied to other fields (similarity 0.84)
• Mainstream media gave Islamophobic commentators hundreds of appearances with minimal scrutiny. (similarity 0.83)
• Academics are neutralized into status symbols by the coverage system (similarity 0.83)
• Real Muslim interlocutors with genuine arguments have been erased from media coverage of Islam. (similarity 0.82)
• Scholarly discourse about Islam can facilitate media dehumanization of Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Media coverage reduces Arabs and Muslims to oil suppliers and potential terrorists (similarity 0.82)
• The media is not the origin or sole source of Islamophobia (similarity 0.82)
• Western discourse reduces all Muslim societies to a single malevolent essence (similarity 0.81)
• A small anti-Muslim expert clique dominates US media coverage of Islam (similarity 0.81)
• Respected journalism published racist claims about Arabic and Islamic thought (similarity 0.81)
• Every portrayal of Islam is an act of willed interpretation, not a description. (similarity 0.81)
• Mainstream media coverage of Islam was overwhelmingly negative by 2015 (similarity 0.81)