Media framed a humanitarian’s conviction as a web of terror uncovered.

Evidence

Going native and going Muslim both signify a regression or the loss of a civilized state of being; a transformation from civilized to barbaric. The regulation of sympathy is inflected by the racial, sexual, classed, gendered, and religious identity of the alleged terrorist. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 907 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media narratives fabricate terrorist identities to serve careers and ratings. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 356; News narratives about terrorism succeed by being soldered with fear and dramatic elements. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 363; Media framed terrorism as inexplicable and used women’s oppression as its explanation — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 530 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Media sympathy for accused terrorists is distributed along racial lines #corroborates (0.85)
• A cluster of 2009 arrests fueled a media narrative conflating Muslim identity with terrorism #exemplifies (0.85)
• Media narratives fabricate terrorist identities to serve careers and ratings. #corroborates (0.82) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 356
• Media sympathy for accused terrorists depends on their social identity markers #corroborates (0.82) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 907
• Mediatized terror treats media as constitutive rather than reflective of conflict #expands (0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 359
• News narratives about terrorism succeed by being soldered with fear and dramatic elements. #expands (0.78) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 363
• Media framed terrorism as inexplicable and used women’s oppression as its explanation #complicates (0.75) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 530
• The Muslim-as-terrorist figure is now framed as a hidden cultural contamination #expands (0.72) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 719