Abstract
This article looks at the portrayal of Islam and Muslims in the
British press. It recommends that British Muslims are depicted as 'outsiders
other' inside the media. It proposes that this misrepresentation can be
connected to the improvement of a 'prejudice', in particular, Islamophobia that
has its underlying foundations in social portrayals of the 'other'. To foster
this argument, the article provides an outline/outline of how ethnic minorities
have been addressed in the British press and contends that the treatment of
British Muslims and Islam follows these subjects of 'aberrance' and
'un-Britishness'.
What they (media) practice is the ability to
address the world in some clear ways. Also, on the grounds that there is a
wide range of clashing manners by which the importance of the world can
be developed, it makes a difference significantly what and who gets addressed,
who and what consistently and regularly gets forgotten about; and how things,
individuals, occasions, connections are addressed. What we are aware of in society
really relies on how things are addressed to us and that information thusly
illuminates what we do and what arrangements we are ready to acknowledge. (Mill
operator 2002, 246)
This article takes a gander at how the media in
the UK address one minority bunch, Muslims. Albeit hypothetically speaking
British Muslims are a heterogeneous gathering involving various ethnic
foundations (Poole 2002). Modood (2005, 2006) further notes that this
heterogeneity is additionally confounded by political, social, and financial
elements. Modood (2003, 2005) proposes that the classification 'Muslim' is all
around different from other gathering classifications, for example,
'English' or 'Christian'. Be that as it may, in spite of these reservations, it
is a helpful characterization for recognizing 'noticeable minorities' (Modood
2003) who are the subject of public uneasiness.
This public tension can show itself most
obviously in media portrayals of Muslims and Islam subsequently the
significance of dissecting and discussing such portrayals. To do this, the article
will recommend that new friendly and political worry over Muslim minority
gatherings can be perceived as a type of social prejudice (Modood 1997). It
will be contended that Muslims are considered and addressed as 'un-British'.
This reverberations past examination into public personality in the UK that
contends that non-white minority bunches in the UK are considered un-British
(Gilroy 1992). These worries about who is and who isn't 'English' have as of
late developed to more extensive discussions about the issues of a
multicultural society (Cottle 2006; Fekete 2002; Modood 1992, 2003, 2005).
These worries over who is 'English' can be
perceived as corresponding to the media treatment of minority gatherings. The
article audits past examination into the media depiction of minority bunches
focusing on press treatment of British Muslims as well as Islam. It is
recommended that the portrayal of British Muslims reverberate past examinations
of how minority bunches are depicted in the media. In many regards, the media
portrayal of minority bunches is a 'situation with two sides. To start with,
it minimizes minority voices, in this manner, they are essentially disregarded
or imperceptible (Saeed 1999). All the while genuine portrayal of minority
bunches is much of the time understood in bad talks (Hartmann and Husband
1974). At the point when these structures are applied to crowds who have
minimal social contact with minority gatherings, the job of the media as a sole
supplier (or essential definer, Hall 1978) becomes critical (Van Dijk 1991).
Cottle contends that the media stand firm on a strong foothold in conveying,
making sense of, and articulating explicit talks that help address (and distort)
minority gatherings (Cottle 2000, 2006).
As late back as 1993, Ahmed noticed that numerous Muslims voiced worry of the negative portrayal of Islam and Muslims by the Western media. Be that as it may, following on from such episodes as the Rushdie issue, the primary Gulf War, and 9/11, interest in media portrayals of Islam has developed. A consistently expanding assortment of examinations has contended that on the equilibrium the pictures, portrayals, and talks connecting with Islam/Muslims in standard Western media will generally be negative and unfriendly (Poole and Richardson 2006). Different examinations have analyzed the particular connection between media and Islam (Ahmed 1993; Runnymede Trust 1997); the portrayals of Muslim minorities in the West (Allen 2005; Poole 2002) and others on Muslims/Islam in the worldwide media (Poole and Richardson 2006; Zelizer and Allan 2002). Ideologically, these developments can be followed back to the extension of Western government where a division of 'West' versus 'East' was built (Said 1978).
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