Media focus on foreign sexism obscures domestic violence against women

Evidence

The media’s relentless focus on Islam’s violence against women also diminishes the occurrence of violence against women in the United States by giving the impression that violence against women is unique to Arabs and Muslims. Such absences not only imply that the United States is a bastion of gender equality but also that the United States has a monopoly on feminism, aligning the nation with freedom, equality, and civilization and positioning “the Muslim world” as its binary opposite. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 585

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense two-way erasure: covering violence abroad both denies domestic violence and purchases national virtue against a civilizational binary — resists a one-sentence summary.
• SHARE: Good for anyone following media framing and the civilizational binary discourse.