THE PROBLEM OF ASSOCIATING ISLAM WITH TERROR IN THE WESTERN MEDIA

Abstract

Western media show overall orientation to attribute problems to Islam and Muslims in simple terms and to generalize it as including all Muslims with a limited perspective in their news coverage of Islam and Muslims. Terror and Islam are brought together in media and used ‘Islamic terror’ and ‘Islamist terror’as an expression and it has been seen that ‘Islamist terrorist’, ‘fundemantalist’, “radical Islamist’ are used for Muslims. In England three member Muslim group organized a terror attack on London Bridge in 3 June 2017. 16 days later following the attack, an English citizen named Darren Osborne organized a kind of similar attack by the Finsbury Park in 19 June 2017. In this study, how both attacks were covered in the British news media were tried to be studied. In this context, how Muslim and Christian attackers were diffrerently represented in the news have been emphasized. 

Keywords

• Western Media,Islam,Terror,Islamic terror,Islamist Terror

BATI MEDYASINDA TERÖRÜN İSLAM’LA İLİŞKİLENDİRİLMESİ SORUNU

Abstract

Batılı medya, İslam ve Müslümanlar ile ilgili haberleştirmesinde teröre yönelik sınırlı bir bakış açısı ile problemi basit bir şekilde İslam ve Müslümanlara mal etme ve tüm Müslümanları kapsayacak şekilde genelleştirme eğilimi göstermektedir. Medyada terör ve İslam yan yana getirilerek ‘İslami terör’, ‘İslamist terör’ gibi ifadeler kullanılırken, Müslümanlar içinde ‘İslamcı terörist’, ‘fundamentalist’, ‘radikal İslamcı’ gibi ifadelerin kullanıldığı görülmektedir. İngiltere’de 3 Haziran 2017 tarihinde Londra Köprüsü’nde Müslüman olduğu öğrenilen üç kişilik bir grup terör saldırısı düzenlemiştir. Bu saldırının gerçekleşmesinden on altı gün sonra 19 Haziran 2017 tarihinde ise Finsbury Park yakınlarında Darren Osborne isimli bir İngiliz vatandaşı Müslümanlara yönelik benzer bir saldırı düzenlemiştir. Bu çalışmada her iki saldırının Britanya haber medyasında nasıl haberleştirildiği incelenmeye çalışılmıştır. Bu bağlamda Müslüman ve Hristiyan saldırganların haberlerde nasıl farklı temsil edildiği üzerinde durulmuştur.

Keywords

• Batılı Medya,İslam,Terör,İslami terör

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