RT Article
T1 Muslim Organisations' Response to Stigmatisation in the Media: Protest, Adaptation or Decoupling
JF Journal of Muslims in Europe
VO 9
IS 1
SP 96
OP 118
A1 Kassaye, Aida
A1 Heelsum, Anja van 1961-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1693121514
AB In the heated media debate on Muslims and Islam, the role of community representatives is understudied. This article will first use original research see to what extent Muslims get the chance to speak out in newspapers in Western Europe, and then demonstrate through findings from interviews how representatives of Muslim organisations operate in the media. We build on Kerstin Rosenow-Williams's perspectives in combining two features, namely 1) the internal and external role of representatives of Muslim organisations, and 2) the active-passive dimension of responses to prejudice and stigmatisation as suggested in social psychology, and will distinguish three patterns: protest, adaptation and decoupling. Throughout the article, we zoom in on the remarkable dissimilarity between the UK and Germany. The British case shows a larger Muslim presence in the newspapers and the tendency of Muslim representatives to use a protest strategy, while the German case shows a lack of Muslim actors in the newspapers and a tendency of Muslim representatives to use an adaptation strategy.
K1 Islamophobia
K1 Muslim organisations
K1 Muslims
K1 media debate
K1 Stigmatisation
DO 10.1163/22117954-BJA10001