Media framed Islamic study as deprivation and literal discomfort.

Evidence

His only respite from studying apart from the occasional foray to the cyber tea shop in Bannu to ship e-mails home, was books on Islam. He slept on a rope bed in his teacher’s study, in a place with no hot water, and no electricity after 10 p.m. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 918