Western media consistently frame Muslims as a threatening cultural Other.

Evidence

In their meta-analysis of 345 studies on Muslim representation in the media of mainly Western countries, Ahmed and Matthes (2017) find a dominant, shared tendency of the media to negatively frame Muslims as the dangerous ‘Other’ in opposition of liberal, Western values. — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 7

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which stages the post-9/11 suspicion of Muslim men as an intimate, first-person experience of being ‘Othered’.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ thesis that moral panics over dress and belonging are class and identity signaling.