Media portrayals of Islamic terror exploit pro-Israel sentiment to demonize all Muslims
Evidence
The power of Emerson’s film, and the cleverness of its strategy, is that of course there is no influential countervailing view of Islam in the media, little sense that the huge majority of Muslims should not really be associated with the marginal and tiny groups that he has blown out of all proportion. A considerable part of the animus fed by Emerson’s representation of “Islam” also derives from its putative anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel; several scenes of havoc after suicide bombings in Israel are shown, as well as a brief visual reference to the bombing of the Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, for which no Muslim culprits have been arrested. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 222
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing whether this 1994 Buenos Aires bombing attribution has since been resolved — the claim that no culprits were arrested may be dated.
- XREF: connects to: Pro-Zionist think tanks form the institutional base disseminating negative Middle East media
Related
- Pro-Zionist think tanks form the institutional base disseminating negative Middle East media (similarity 0.87)
- Media coverage of Islam systematically obscures Western actions against Muslims (similarity 0.81)
- Media coverage reduces Arabs and Muslims to oil suppliers and potential terrorists (similarity 0.81)
- Said judged Western media coverage of Muslim executions as worse than the executions (similarity 0.80)
- Media coverage humanizes Muslims as perpetrators but erases them as victims (similarity 0.79)
- Islamic studies’ marginality lets media spread racist caricatures unchecked (similarity 0.79)
- Terrorism coverage substitutes reductive identity explanations for political and historical context. (similarity 0.78)