Corporate media/Islamophobia

Corporate media/Islamophobia (“islamophobia”)

Post 9/11, the islamophobia is promulgated by corporate media more by what it omits to state than by what it reports. For example, the Corporate media in Western countries was quick to repeat the US government's official narrative about the 19 Muslim hijackers without subjecting it to any critical scrutiny (even to the point of not checking whether these people did in fact die on that day). In 2016, a UK national newspaper was the first to express doubt about the highly dubious official narrative of the "19 hijackers".

Some corporate media have squarely addressed the incorrect equation of Islam with terrorism, such as a Huffington Post article from December 20915, entitled "Muslims Are Not Terrorists: A Factual Look at Terrorism and Islam". However, by and large, the corporate media, directed by official government sources, are very quick to Islam with terrorism, as if to establish a connection between the two. It is very rare that it does this with Christianity, Judaism or other religions. As former NSA director, William Odom observed:

“Terrorism cannot be defeated because it’s not an enemy, it’s a tactic. A war against Al Qaida is sensible and supportable, but a war against a tactic is ludicrous and hurtful... a propaganda ploy to swindle others into supporting one’s own terrorism ... and encourages prejudices against Muslims everywhere. What if we said “Catholic Christian IRA hitmen” ?”
William Odom (2006) 

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"Islamophobia"	“"terrorism" in the post-9/11 American vernacular has become shorthand for "Islamic terrorism."”	Gregory Krieg	2 April 2017

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