Media framing of oppressed Muslim women strategically omits context to justify U.S. imperialism

Evidence

This chapter examines these three iterations of simplified complex representations by examining two sites. I first examine a sampling of commercial U.S. media reports on the oppressed Muslim woman in order to scrutinize how these stories are framed and what is strategically omitted to justify U.S. imperialist projects. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 529

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what ‘simplified complex representations’ means as the book’s core analytical object.
• XREF: connects to: Media imagery ties Islam to violence against women to justify intervention; Selective media focus on Muslim sexism constructs Western enlightenment as its opposite