Islamic Peril
At the junction of history, international relations, political science, and communication studies, Karim H. Karim’s Islamic Peril provides serious and in-depth research on the media coverage of violence involving Muslim individuals and groups. This updated edition of the book, first published in 20...
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oai:doaj.org-article:da9d8c51fb974e9596aa2489c0b33e782021-12-02T17:26:15ZIslamic Peril10.35632/ajis.v21i3.17772690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/da9d8c51fb974e9596aa2489c0b33e782004-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1777https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 At the junction of history, international relations, political science, and communication studies, Karim H. Karim’s Islamic Peril provides serious and in-depth research on the media coverage of violence involving Muslim individuals and groups. This updated edition of the book, first published in 2000, adds a preface and an afterword that briefly account for 9/11 and its aftermath. While studying the construction of Islam as the primary “Other” in Canada’s main print media since the beginning of the 1980s, the author argues that the numerous (mis)representations and stereotypes of Muslims are based on a lack of religious, sociological, political, and historical knowledge rather than on what Karim calls a “centrally organized journalistic conspiracy against Islam” (p. 4). The author concentrates on the construction, flow, and reproduction of globally dominant interpretations through relations of power and domination between the North and the South, but also inside the North’s media. His focus on journalism’s internal mechanisms (e.g., dependence on a limited number of sources, the need for simplification, and the clash of interests between information and business) and the wider sociopolitical domination processes (e.g., the end of the cold war or unipolarity) prevents the analysis from being overtly simplistic and adopting a victim mentality. The author does not just highlight the (mis)representations; he also tries to analyze them. His approach is optimistic, for it implies there is no fatality in reproducing stigmatization and stereotypes. Karim studies what could be called the “Islamization of representations”: the social construction of the linkage between facts of violence that are historically and sociologically rooted and the notion of Islam as an essence. His analysis does not revolutionise the approach toward discourses on Islam, for one can feel how much he was influenced by the ... Laurent BonnefoyInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 21, Iss 3 (2004) |
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At the junction of history, international relations, political science, and
communication studies, Karim H. Karim’s Islamic Peril provides serious
and in-depth research on the media coverage of violence involving Muslim
individuals and groups. This updated edition of the book, first published in
2000, adds a preface and an afterword that briefly account for 9/11 and its
aftermath. While studying the construction of Islam as the primary “Other”
in Canada’s main print media since the beginning of the 1980s, the author
argues that the numerous (mis)representations and stereotypes of Muslims
are based on a lack of religious, sociological, political, and historical
knowledge rather than on what Karim calls a “centrally organized journalistic
conspiracy against Islam” (p. 4).
The author concentrates on the construction, flow, and reproduction
of globally dominant interpretations through relations of power and domination
between the North and the South, but also inside the North’s media.
His focus on journalism’s internal mechanisms (e.g., dependence on a
limited number of sources, the need for simplification, and the clash of
interests between information and business) and the wider sociopolitical
domination processes (e.g., the end of the cold war or unipolarity) prevents
the analysis from being overtly simplistic and adopting a victim
mentality. The author does not just highlight the (mis)representations; he
also tries to analyze them. His approach is optimistic, for it implies there
is no fatality in reproducing stigmatization and stereotypes.
Karim studies what could be called the “Islamization of representations”:
the social construction of the linkage between facts of violence that
are historically and sociologically rooted and the notion of Islam as an
essence. His analysis does not revolutionise the approach toward discourses
on Islam, for one can feel how much he was influenced by the ...
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