Please help us thank Toronto Star and Faisal Kutty for an excellent opinion piece about the Western media’s role in our perception of Muslims and Palestinians.
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Title of Piece: Faisal Kutty: "How Western media treats the ‘Islamic threat’"
Media Outlet: Toronto Star
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Please help us thank Toronto Star and Faisal Kutty for an excellent opinion piece about the Western media’s role in our perception of Muslims and Palestinians.
- Kutti draws from the teachings of Edward Said to make readers understand how Media are powerful and dangerous in shaping how we think about Muslims and Palestinians.
- Kutty explains that the Muslim threat took over the communist scare in the post-Cold War era and was solidified with 9/11 to include Western Muslims as well.
- Kutti mentions the Media’s responsibility for fomenting hate, incitement to genocide, dehumanization, justifications for war crimes, and Israeli propaganda.
- To strengthen his idea of the media’s pro-Israel bias, Kutty mentions several studies and examples of reporting from the U.S. and Canada.
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