“…In any case, after the 9/11 attacks, the media paid much attention on Islam-related news with various coined terms such as "Islamic terrorism", "Islamic fanaticism", "Muslim extremists" (Mohideen & Mohideen, 2008;Nurullah, 2010;Ridouani, 2011). These kinds of terminologies constitute part of media texts with the tendency to associate Islam with terrorism depending largely on the manner in which the news story is constructed (Hassan, Azmi, & Abdullahi, 2020). As a result of the distortion of words' meaning, taking into consideration the news context, the media reinforce stereotypes and negative images of Islam (Moore et al, 2008;Reynolds, 2015;Hassan et al, 2017).…”