Media images of oppressed Muslim women directly serve policy making

Evidence

One important connection that has not been explored yet is the connection between media representations of Muslim women and the politics of Islamophobia. The analysis of examples that follows below assumes that there are direct and intentional links between the production and dissemination of media images of oppressed Muslim women, in the United States and elsewhere, the reception of such stereotypes in the public sphere, and the utility of such discourses for domestic and foreign policy making. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 498

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media imagery ties Islam to violence against women to justify intervention