Press singled out Islam while ignoring identical views among Israeli religious authorities.
Evidence
At the same time, the daily press discovered Islam’s ascendancy and the medieval attributes of its punishments, jurisprudence, and conception of women; no one remarked at the same time that Israeli rabbis expressed remarkably similar views on women or on non-Jews, personal hygiene, and punishment, or that various Lebanese clerics were just as bloodthirsty and medieval in their outlook. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 218
Categorization
- SEED: Angle for an essay on selective moral outrage in media: how equivalent behaviors are racialized only when the out-group performs them.
Related
- Western press praised illiberal Christianity but blamed only Islam for violence. (similarity 0.81)
- Said judged Western media coverage of Muslim executions as worse than the executions (similarity 0.80)
- Western commentators ignored religious politics in Israel and America while condemning Iran’s. (similarity 0.80)