Western outlets wrongly blamed Muslims for the 2011 Norway attacks

Evidence

In a similar vein, Kanji (2018) investigated how Western media covered the terrorist events in Norway in 2011 using critical discourse analysis. The primary conclusion was that several writers for western media made an erroneous and unfair assumption that Muslims and Islamic organizations were behind the attacks. These authors employed linguistic manipulation to expose blatant bigotry towards Islam and Muslims. — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 34

Categorization

• CANDY: The 2011 Norway attacker was a white right-wing extremist, yet Western media initially pointed at Muslims — a punchy, self-contained fact.