Leading Western newspapers would never print such venom about Christianity or Judaism, only Islam
Evidence
It would be unimaginable to find such a venomous, purely bigoted portrayal of Christianity, Judaism, or any other major religion in the pages of a leading Western newspaper. It would be naive to think that the attitudes represented by O’Brien did not play a role in the acquiescence by British society and Western society more generally in the assault on Bosnian Muslims. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 640
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on moral panics and on how group stigmatization enables atrocities — the anti-Muslim caricature described parallels the mechanisms in Cohen’s moral panic framework.
Related
- Western anti-Muslim and Islamic anti-Western narratives reinforce each other (similarity 0.83)
- Western press praised illiberal Christianity but blamed only Islam for violence. (similarity 0.81)
- Mainstream anti-Muslim prejudice enabled Western acquiescence in the Bosnian assault (similarity 0.81)
- Western betrayal of Bosnia strengthened the very Islamic extremism it feared (similarity 0.79)