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Muslims in the West After 9/11

"Since 9/11 the debate on the compatibilty between Islam and Western political and cultural vaules has become increasingly public".

"The problem is the use of the concepts of "culture" and "civilzation", especially describing Islam".

"Islam has become the domain and privileged topic of terrorism".

"He suggests that current Islamic terroism discourse is the product of three disinct and very infleuntial genealogies".

"The discourse on Islamic terroism is predicated on binary oppositions: the West versus Islam, democracy anti-modernity and secularism versus religion".


"Islam is portrayed as inherently violent and Muslims are portrayed as desperately incapable of separating religion and politics". 


"Terrorism is directly linked to fundamentalist forms of Islam, and thus the "bloody borders of Islam" stain much of the discourse on Islam". 


"The post 9/11 situation has blurred the distinction between national and international politics when it comes to  Islam". 


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Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 

"Islam and Freedom: Are they destined to clash?" (Newsweek). 

"Such images are distored abstractions. Extraploating from context - specific controversies, they paint Muslims as a homogeneous, zombie-like body".

"Muslims now find themselves across large swathes of the world, and because of the stereotyping of Muslims takes place in repeated in acts of representation by polictians, by press and media".

"Muslims are stereotyped and "framed" within the polictial, cultural, and media discourses of the West".

"Far from being accurate or netural, contemporary images of Muslims presented by politicans and in the mainstream media and cultural forms are almost tied to an agenda that simulataneously accounces its desire to "engage" with them".

"All these stereotypes have emegened with the renewed force since 9/11".