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    The Role of American Media in Spreading Islamophobia after 9/11 Case Study: Written Press
    (2017-06) Hamadi Nasreddine, Belkaid Maamar
    IV Abstract This paper seeks to investigate the portrayal of Islam and Muslims in the American mainstream media and its role in spreading and promoting Islamophobia after 9/11, whether the picture is distorted and misinformation, and how this influenced public opinion. Recently, considerable attention has been paid to the Muslim community in the US news, discussions and debates which become hyper-visible. This increased interest makes the need for this research project timely. The events of 9/11 have brought Islam and Muslims in the American spotlight, since then, media plays a significant role on public perceptions, it extensively links Islam with terrorism where often lead to disastrous consequences. This paper would provide a profound analysis of mainstream US newspapers’ articles to show the power of media on mindset and the biased portrayal of Muslims and Islam which driven and exploited for personal gains. Qualitative methodology would be adopted along this work. The findings highlight that there is a prejudice, misinformation and some newspapers tended to present Islam and Muslims in a negative way, resorting to some stereotypical images that Islam is violent and intolerance, and adopting a double standard policy to depict Muslims constantly as terrorists, and extremists.