Western media coverage of Buddhist anti-Muslim violence drew little public reaction

Evidence

The Swiss filmmaker might have been frightened, but for many in the West, the terror still does not connect on a visceral level. People are unable to see a Buddhist in a saffron robe as someone who might incite genocidal violence on a grand scale. For example, Wirathu was featured in a July 2013 TIME magazine cover story with the headline “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” The accompanying story enumerated on the dangers faced by Rohingya and the tactics used by militant monks to fuel anti-Muslim violence in Southeast Asia. Despite this prominent report, the news barely made a ripple on the national stage. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 139

Categorization

• SEED: A TIME cover about Buddhist terror barely registering while comparable stories about Muslim terrorism dominate—an angle on journalistic selectivity in covering Islamophobia based on perpetrator’s identity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 139
• XREF: connects to: Publicized negative episodes reliably spike anti-Muslim violence — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 597; The media codes only certain groups’ violence as religiously motivated — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 198; Western War on Terror tropes shaped the Buddhist-nationalist genocide of Rohingya.

Broader Connections

• Publicized negative episodes reliably spike anti-Muslim violence #contradicts (0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 597
• The media codes only certain groups’ violence as religiously motivated #expands (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 198
• Western War on Terror tropes shaped the Buddhist-nationalist genocide of Rohingya. #expands (0.50)