Media imagery ties Islam to violence against women to justify intervention

Evidence

Outrage is an emotion that carries vast political potential. If we are outraged at the treatment of the oppressed Muslim woman, we are far more likely to support U.S. interventions in Muslim countries in the name of saving the women. The U.S. media participates in encouraging a particular form of outrage—outrage at the oppressive nature of Islam—while other forms of outrage are intentionally left absent, namely, that the United States has played a significant role in creating Islamic fundamentalism and current conflicts including 9/11 and the War on Terror. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 821 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media frames tied Islam to gendered violence to justify imperial intervention; Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282; Media images of oppressed Muslim women directly serve policy making — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 498 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Media frames tied Islam to gendered violence to justify imperial intervention #corroborates (1.00)
• Media-cultivated outrage at Islam’s oppression of women justifies US military intervention. #corroborates (1.00) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 821
• Media framing of oppressed Muslim women strategically omits context to justify U.S. imperialism #corroborates (0.95) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 529
• Islamophobic rhetoric uses Muslim women’s oppression to justify war #corroborates (0.90) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 545
• Media images of oppressed Muslim women directly serve policy making #corroborates (0.82) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 498
• Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. #expands (0.78) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link #qualifies (0.72) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282
• Media and state mutually reinforce Islam-violence associations for distinct functional reasons #expands (0.72)
• Media framed terrorism as inexplicable and used women’s oppression as its explanation #expands (0.72) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 530
• Western media depicts Muslim women solely as passive victims stripped of agency #expands (0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 510