Western media conflate Muslim culture with terrorism to flatter Western identity

Evidence

The current study’s goals are to determine how Muslims are portrayed in Western media. On the other hand, the goal of this essay is to reveal the hidden meanings that are present in published material about Muslim The purpose of this study is to investigate how Muslims are portrayed and framed in the context of terrorism by the worldwide press. This study will demonstrate how Western print media inaccurately associates Muslim culture and behavior with Islamic society and Negative portrayals of the Muslim world serve as a mirror to favorably reflect Western culture. — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 12

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Said’s Orientalism and The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s mirroring of American anxieties onto its Muslim narrator.
• SEED: Angle: contrastive framing, how negative portrayal of an out-group functions as flattery of the in-group’s self-image.