Media and state both profit from perpetuating the Islam-violence association.

Evidence

While the media has very little incentive to challenge religious explanations of events like 9/11, the state has a definite interest in perpetuating them because this association provides a rationale for the expansion of the state’s authority and control with the majority of its citizens’ consent who seek protection against another violent attack. Consequently, both the media and the state reinforce through their actions, if not always by words, the association of Islam with violence that has ostracized a segment of the American population on the basis of religion. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 266

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s framing that intolerance is a condition of the fearer — the media’s looping effect and the state’s incentive structure are the institutionalized fear mechanics.