Page | 1 Centre for Research on Islam and Global Media (CRIGM) Department of Media and Communication Studies Faculty of Social Sciences International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Sector H-10, Islamabad, Pakistan. [email protected] For Contact: +92-51-9019743, +92-51-9019520 ISSN: 2520-3215 Executive Editor: Patron in Chief Professor Dr. Fazal Rahim Khan Qasuria Prof. Dr. Ahmad Yousif A. Al-Draiweesh Director Centre for Research on Islam and Global Media (CRIGM) President, International Islamic University Faculty of Social Sciences Islamabad (IIUI), Sector H-10 Department of Media and Communication Studies Islamabad, Pakistan. International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Sector H-10, For Contact: +92-51-9258064 Islamabad, Pakistan. [email protected] For Contact: +92-51-9019743, [email protected] Email: [email protected] Editor: Professor Dr. Zafar Iqbal Baloch Chairman, Department of Media and Communication Studies Faculty of Social Sciences International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Sector H-10, Islamabad, Pakistan. For Contact: +92-51-9019743, +92-51-9019520 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Centre for Research on Islam and Global Media (CRIGM), Team: Advisory Board Hassan Shahzad Dr. Shabbir Hussain Member of Editorial Commettee, CRIGM Assistant Professor, DMCS Muhammad Tariq Awan Assistant Director, CRIGM Yasar Arafat Syed Inaam ur Rehman Research Associate, CRIGM Assistant Professor, DMCS Qamar Abbas Rooh-ul-Amin Khan Research Associate, CRIGM Assistant Professor, DMCS Abid Zafar Muhammad Atif Shahzad Rsearch Associate & Social Media Promoter, CRIGM Lecturer, DMCS Nauman Riaz Sial Muhammad Junaid Ghauri Research Associate & Designer, CRIGM Lecturer, DMCS Waqar Ahmed Mrs. Amrat Haq Research Associate, CRIGM Assistant Professor-DMCS Female Tahir Mehmood Malik Mrs. Qurrat ul Ain Co-ordinator, CRIGM Assistant Professor-DMCS Female Printed by IRI Press, Faisal Mosque Building, Old Campus, International Islamic University Islamabad-Pakistan. 15th July 2017 Page | 2 Monthly Media Watch Islam and Muslims in the Global Media June 2017 Centre for Research on Islam and Global Media (CRIGM) Department of Media and Communication Studies International Islamic University Islamabad-Pakistan Page | 3 Table of Contents Page No. 1. About the compendium 5 2. Editorial 6 3. Introduction 7 4. How to read it 9 5. Methodology of Data Collection 10 6. Summary Analysis of the US Print Media Contents Against 11 Islam and Muslims (June 2017) 7. Summary Analysis of the European Media Contents Against 12 Islam and Muslims (June 2017) 8. Highlights of Negative Contents from Western Media (June 13 2017) 9. United States: News Stories Published in United States & 39 North American Print Media Containing Islamophobic Contents 10. Europe: News Stories Published in European Print Media 176 Containing Islamophobic Contents 11. Australia: News Stories Published in Austalian Print Media 243 Containing Islamophobic Contents 12 Social Media: Islamophobic trends in Social Media 265 Page | 4 About the Compendium This is a monthly compendium of news reports and judgement pieces published in the Western media during June 2017 on issues related to Islam and Muslims. The Western media is generally found to be painting Islam and Muslims as a global threat and danger for the world peace. It has launched an unethical smear campaign against Islam and Muslims, which is becoming intense by the day and from the standpoint of the Western media audience such an unfair portrayal of Islam is likely to be highly Islamophobic and conflictual. To monitor and catalogue the ever-increasing frequency of the Western media’s negative packaging of Islam and Muslims, the Centre for Research on Islam and Global Media (CRIGM) collects within two covers the news stories and leading articles carried in the Western press every month. The articles are culled based on the known indicators of Islamophobia. and found abundant negative contents, highlighted, and published them in a bound form. CRIGM is not only observing western media on issues concerning Islam and Muslim societies but has an eye out for the entire array of the Western media including the electronic, broadcast, online and the social media as well. Shortly, we shall start publishing separate medium-specific reports as well. Page | 5 Editorial Page | 6 Introduction Department of Media and Communication Studies (DMCS) of International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Pakistan, under its Centre for Research on Islam and Global Media (CRIGM) publishes a monthly report on western media’s negative framing of Islam and Muslims under the title “Islam and Muslims in the Global Media”. The present compendium in hand is 6th edition ‘June 2017’. Islamophobia industry with the help of media is actively proliferating hate among the western nation. It is widening the differences among the religions, races and minorities which were very close to each other in their teachings in the recent past. Historical rise in islamophobia has legitimated hate crimes against Muslims such as burning the worship places (Mosques), snatching the hijabs, throwing the animals dead bodies in the holly places, wall chalking aganist Islam and Muslims, Killing the innocent and peaceful citizens, stereotyping the men having beard as terrorists, stabbing the students, acid attacks on innocent Muslim girls, hitting the cars to Muslim worshippers and blowing up the houses of Muslims, have become very common in the western societies. The situation has gone so intense that Muslims are trying to hide themselves under some precautions for their survival, even in the countries of human rights protection act’s stakeholders. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued an alert to all mosques and Islamic organizations nationwide, warning them to be vigilant after incidents of violence against Muslims in recent weeks and a year punctuated by an increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes, hate incidents and rhetoric. CAIR- LA has also issued a similar alert for all mosques in Southern California, said executive director Hussam Ayloush. "We're asking mosque administrators to make sure the areas are well-lit and there's adequate security available," Ayloush also is asking Muslims not to engage with people who target them through hate speech. "Don't respond to racial slurs because you don't know the state of mind of that person," he said. "The best thing to do is to ignore. If you feel unsafe, call the police and move to a safe place immediately." Two recent incidents - the murder of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen of Reston, Va., who was killed after leaving her mosque Sunday morning, and an incident outside a mosque in Finsbury Park, London, where a man plowed a rented van into worshipers, leaving one dead and nine others injured - have left American Muslims shaken." It has been told everyone to be alert and have especially warned girls and women wearing hijabs not to walk by themselves," "It's unfortunate that Muslims have to do this, but these are precautions we have to take under current circumstances." Muslim communities have been calling for increased action to tackle the growth in hate crime for many years and transformative action must now be taken to tackle not only this incident but the hugely worrying growth in Islamophobia. Recent reports state that more than 100 mosques have been targeted and attacked in the UK since 2013, that anti-Muslim hate crimes increased by 500 per cent since the Manchester Arena bombing in May, that since the London Bridge attacks in June, authorities have received 50 reports a day Over the past weeks and months, Muslims have endured many incidents of Islamophobia and this is the most violent manifestation to date. Page | 7 The present compendium of June 2017 consists of the media discourses circulated across the world after President Donald Trump issued an executive order largely fulfilling the banning of seven Muslim-Majority countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) entering the United States and then second version of an executive order excluding Iraq from the list. Now the President’s executive order have got a legal form with little modification and adding the ‘Bona Fied’ relationship’s article. CRIGM has also published many stories from the European and Australian newspapers as anti-Islam and Muslims. The beginning of the new year 2017, remained potentially Islamophobic around the western world. That is why the compendium documents variety of media reports and leading articles and highlights the polemical approaches and negativities by highlighting and making them appear as bold. These identified media reports and opinion pieces have been retrieved using LexisNexis and websites of various news organizations for the month of June 2017. The search (key) words were Islam and Muslims and media from United States & North America, Europe & United Kingdom and Australia & New Zealand were selected for data retrieval. A total of over 4500 pages of news reports and leading articles from print media were retrieved in the search on our given key words. Out of them, some of the reports are made part of this compendium as being highly negative in nature. The reports with minor tendency of negativity towards Muslims and Islam were excluded to avoid this compendium becoming huge enough to handle. A summary analysis of media negativities has been made to provide a glimpse of how media have been treating Islam and Muslims in their reports and leading articles. For this initiative and other associated tasks, the Centre is highly indebted to Professor Dr. Suliman Abdullah Aba Al-Khail, Pro-Chancellor IIUI and the Rector Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, KSA; Professor Dr. Masoom Yasinzai, Rector IIUI and Professor Dr. Ahmed Yousif Ahmed Al-Draiweesh for their relentless support and guidance and making this initiative possible. Page | 8 How to read it Centre for Research on Islam and Global Media (CRIGM) has compiled this book having the ease of readers in mind.