Muslim terrorist attacks received seven times more media coverage than non-Muslim attacks per incident

Evidence

The Universities of Georgia and Alabama in the United States conducted a study comparing media coverage of “terrorist attacks” committed by Islamist militants with those of non- Muslims in the United States. Researchers found that “terrorist attacks” by Islamist militants receive 357% more media attention than attacks committed by non-Muslims or whites. Terrorist attacks committed by non-Muslims (or where the religion was unknown) received an average of 15 headlines, while those committed by Muslim extremists received 105 headlines. The study was based on an analysis of news reports covering terrorist attacks in the United States between 2005 and 2015. This was despite the fact that far-right extremists were responsible for almost double the number of terrorist acts in US attributed to Muslim individuals between 2008 and 2016. — Wikipedia contributors, Islamophobia, 66 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Yet there is more than anecdotal evidence to indicate a strong double standard when it comes to identifying terrorism. A 2019 University of Alabama study found that terrorist attacks committed by Muslims currently receive 357 percent more media coverage than those committed by white men. In another media study by Georgia State University, researchers analyzed terrorist attacks in the United States from the years 2011 to 2015 and found that there was a 449 percent increase in media coverage when the perpetrator was Muslim compared to when the perpetrator was a white non-Muslim. This same GSU study found that Muslims committed only 12 percent of attacks during the five-year period studied, but received over 40 percent of total news media coverage during that same time (an over-representation of over 340 percent). — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The research’s conclusions demonstrate how inconsistent the press coverage was across a range of international publications. There were differences in how terrorist acts involving Muslims and those involving non-Muslims were covered. — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 106 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Western media coverage of Muslim militants rose sharply while coverage of ordinary Muslims stagnated; Muslim-perpetrated attacks draw far more US media coverage than far-right attacks — Wikipedia contributors, Islamophobia, 66; Media underreport terrorist attacks when the perpetrators are non-Muslim — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes…, 89 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslim-perpetrated attacks draw far more US media coverage than far-right attacks #corroborates (0.98) — Wikipedia contributors, Islamophobia, 66
• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage #corroborates (0.97) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217
• Press coverage of terrorism varies with the perpetrator’s religion #expands (0.92) — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 106