Can Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the values
of Islam ever be brought into accord with the individual freedoms
central to the civic identity of Western nations? Not if you
believe what you see on TV. Whether the bearded fanatic, the
veiled, oppressed female, or the shadowy terrorist plotting our
destruction, crude stereotypes permeate public representations of
Muslims in the United States and western Europe. But these
"Muslims" are caricatures distorted abstractions, wrought in the
most garish colors, that serve to reduce the diversity and
complexity of the Muslim world to a set of fixed objects suitable
for sound bites and not much else.
In" Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after
9/11, " Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin dissect the ways in which
stereotypes depicting Muslims as an inherently problematic presence
in the West are constructed, deployed, and circulated in the public
imagination, producing an immense gulf between representation and a
considerably more complex reality. Crucially, they show that these
stereotypes are not solely the province of crude-minded demagogues
and their tabloid megaphones, but multiply as well from the lips of
supposedly progressive elites, even those who presume to speak
"from within," on Muslims' behalf. Based on nuanced analyses of
cultural representations in both the United States and the UK, the
authors draw our attention to a circulation of stereotypes about
Muslims that sometimes globalizes local biases and, at other times,
brings national differences into sharper relief.
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