Selective media focus on Muslim sexism constructs Western enlightenment as its opposite

Evidence

This chapter examines these three iterations of simplified complex representations by examining two sites. I first examine a sampling of commercial U.S. media reports on the oppressed Muslim woman in order to scrutinize how these stories are framed and what is strategically omitted to justify U.S. imperialist projects. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 529 (#expands, via linked claim)

One aspect of the electronic, postmodern world is that there has been a reinforcement of the stereotypes by which the Orient is viewed. Television, the films, and all the media’s resources have forced information into more and more standardized molds. So far as the Orient is concerned, standardization and cultural stereotyping have intensified the hold of the nineteenth-century academic and imaginative demonology of “the mysterious Orient.” — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 99 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Nafisi’s particular trick is not only to snuff out any possibility of feminist practice or resistance from within Islam but also to disregard all kinds of feminist activity that does not originate in the West and coincide with secular values. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 227 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Singling out Islam for sexism serves a civilizational contrast narrative rather than fact. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 307; Electronic mass media reinforce and standardize inherited Orientalist stereotypes — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 99; Depicting feminism as Western-only erases Muslim feminist movements — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 227 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Electronic mass media reinforce and standardize inherited Orientalist stereotypes #corroborates (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 99
• Media framing of oppressed Muslim women strategically omits context to justify U.S. imperialism #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 529
• Depicting feminism as Western-only erases Muslim feminist movements #qualifies (0.82) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 227
• Enlightenment thinkers retained older anti-Muslim stereotypes #corroborates (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 161
• A shared narrative lineage counters Enlightenment reason used against Muslims #corroborates (0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 507
• Orientalism’s gendered images legitimized Western colonialism of Muslim lands. #qualifies (0.78) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 28
• Scholarly discourse about Islam can facilitate media dehumanization of Muslims #corroborates (0.78) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 511
• Western anti-Muslim and Islamic anti-Western narratives reinforce each other #qualifies (0.75) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 641
• The media is not the origin or sole source of Islamophobia #qualifies (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 836
• Muslim communities’ media problems stem from underrepresentation in journalism and the arts #expands (0.72)