Pejorative Muslim framing in headlines is a recurring, dangerous journalistic failure.

Evidence

I think it is easy to slip into … I saw it the other day, and it was three headlines together on one page of the Daily Telegraph, and the headline said something like ‘Foreigners live in £1.3 million houses’ … Then there was a headline where the word Muslim was being used in a pejorative sense and I thought these things, to my mind, are quite dangerous … I think that’s where some papers make a really big mistake time after time after time (interview with Nasar Meer, 29 January 2008). — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 74

Categorization

• CANDY: A vivid concrete example — juxtaposed headlines equating ‘foreigners’ with luxury housing and a pejorative ‘Muslim’ — usable as an illustration of coded anti-Muslim framing.
• XREF: connects to: Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217; Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240; Media coverage of Muslim women collapses them into an oppressed-or-dangerous binary — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 407 (+6 more)

Related

• Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims (similarity 0.84)
• Ninety-one per cent of press representations of Islam were negative (similarity 0.82)
• Media bias against Muslims remains as prevalent today as in 1997 (similarity 0.82)
• News organizations differ in how they frame Muslim religion as a public issue (similarity 0.81)
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link (similarity 0.80)
• Terrorists achieve media immortality while their Muslim victims remain anonymous (similarity 0.79)
• Western media frames Islam chiefly through terrorism and women’s oppression. (similarity 0.79)
• Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage (similarity 0.79)
• Mainstream media gave Islamophobic commentators hundreds of appearances with minimal scrutiny. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage #corroborates (0.85) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link #expands (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282
• Media frames Muslim terrorists as religion-driven simpletons while psychologizing non-Muslim perpetrators #exemplifies (0.82) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 506
• Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims #complicates (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240
• Mainstream media misattributed the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to Muslims. #exemplifies (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 504
• The false eighty-percent-mosque claim circulated unchallenged across mainstream media #exemplifies (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 559
• Publicized negative episodes reliably spike anti-Muslim violence #complicates (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 597
• Media coverage of Muslim women collapses them into an oppressed-or-dangerous binary #complicates (0.72) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 407