Newspapers vary widely in how much they frame Islam as a problem after attacks

Evidence

On the other side, The National (means 20.8%) and The Guardian (means 32.1%) shown greater proportions of critique directed at Western-approved frameworks (open views of Islam). … In Table 8, according to IF 5, The Guardian (means 21.0%), Daily News (means 18.5%) and the Toronto Sun (means 29.6were the periodicals in which, following terrorist attacks, Islamophobia—defined as restricted views of Islam—was accepted as the norm. However, newspaper of The National had the most proportion of participants reporting instances of Islamophobia as a problem (means 27.8%), followed by Express Tribune (means 22.2%). — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 58

Categorization

• QUESTION: The coding scheme conflates ‘critical of Western frameworks’ with ‘open views of Islam’ while calling restricted views ‘Islamophobia’ — worth interrogating whether the measure smuggles in a normative stance.
• XREF: Connects to scholarship on media framing of Muslims post-9/11 and the ‘clash of civilizations’ discourse.