PHOBIA OF RELIGION: RELIGION AS ISLAM a political argument and a psychoanalytic inquiry of Islamophobia in India

Mehdi, Zehra

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“…Studies have discussed how in India, the category of "Muslim" has been reproduced as a religious category, and has been rendered incompatible with "being Indian" (Mehdi 2017). Mehdi (2017) extends Said's Orientalism thesis (1978) to "explain how in the secular nation state of India, the phobia isn't of Islam; rather, it is of religion.…”

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Who Is the Muslim? Discursive Representations of the Muslims and Islam in Indian Prime-Time News

Drabu¹

2018

Religions

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A cursory look at Indian prime-time news tells us much about the tone and tenor of the people associated with it. Exaggerations, hyperbole, and tempers run wild, and news anchors flail in theatrical rage. News channels and news editors display their ideological affiliations subliminally. These affiliations—a factor of personal political stances, funding bodies, and investors—lead to partisan bias in the framing of news and, in some cases, can easily translate into racial prejudice. In this paper, I examine news coverage related to Muslims in India. I study the coverage of two issues specifically—love jihad and triple talaq—in prime-time English news of two channels: Times Now and Republic TV. Love jihad is a term used to describe alleged campaigns carried out by Muslim men targeting non-Muslim women for conversion to Islam by feigning love. Triple talaq is a form of divorce that has been interpreted to allow Muslim men to legally divorce their wives by stating the word “talaq” three times. My analysis of the content, tone, and tenor of their coverage shows that these channels propagate associations between Islam and backwardness, ignorance, and violence through consistent employment of the following tropes: “Muslim women need to be saved from Muslim men”; “Hindu women need to be saved from Muslim men”; and, “Muslims are not fully Indian—they are anti-national”. I place this study of news media within the current political climate in India and briefly touch on the conversations it guides and provokes. This is a first step in detailing a problem. It is also a call for further analysis on this subject to examine and evaluate if and how discourse manipulates public conversations and policy decisions.

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Who Is the Muslim? Discursive Representations of the Muslims and Islam in Indian Prime-Time News

Drabu¹

2018

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“…The source of such is hard to determine; however, it exists among individuals or groups of people. The definition of Islamophobia is an exaggerated fear, hostility towards Islam and the Muslim community ( Mehdi, 2017 ). Islamophobic marginalization results in bias, discrimination, and the marginalization and exclusion of Muslims from social, political, and civic life.…”

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A word embedding technique for sentiment analysis of social media to understand the relationship between Islamophobic incidents and media portrayal of Muslim communities

Ali

Asif

Hamid

et al. 2022

PeerJ Computer Science

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Islamophobia is a sentiment against the Muslim community; recently, atrocities towards Muslim communities witnessed this sentiment globally. This research investigates the correlation between how news stories covered by mainstream news channels impede the hate speech/Islamophobic sentiment. To examine the objective mentioned above, we shortlisted thirteen mainstream news channels and the ten most widely reported Islamophobic incidents across the globe for experimentation. Transcripts of the news stories are scraped along with their comments, likes, dislikes, and recommended videos as the users’ responses. We used a word embedding technique for sentiment analysis, e.g., Islamophobic or not, three textual variables, video titles, video transcripts, and comments. This sentiment analysis helped to compute metric variables. The I-score represents the extent of portrayals of Muslims in a particular news story. The next step is to calculate the canonical correlation between video transcripts and their respective responses, explaining the relationship between news portrayal and hate speech. This study provides empirical evidence of how news stories can promote Islamophobic sentiments and eventually atrocities towards Muslim communities. It also provides the implicit impact of reporting news stories that may impact hate speech and crime against specific communities.

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Beyond the exposure: reading the composition of violence in Moyukh Chatterjee's composing violence: the limits of exposure and the making of minorities

Parveen,

Hassan

2024

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PHOBIA OF RELIGION: RELIGION AS ISLAM a political argument and a psychoanalytic inquiry of Islamophobia in India

Abstract: with an impossibility -they cannot be Indians as long as they are Muslims and they can never not be Muslims. In exploring the incidents of lynching, this paper presents a psycho-political reading of Muslims in India and their impossibility of being Indian.

Cited by 3 publications

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Who Is the Muslim? Discursive Representations of the Muslims and Islam in Indian Prime-Time News

Who Is the Muslim? Discursive Representations of the Muslims and Islam in Indian Prime-Time News

A word embedding technique for sentiment analysis of social media to understand the relationship between Islamophobic incidents and media portrayal of Muslim communities

Beyond the exposure: reading the composition of violence in Moyukh Chatterjee's composing violence: the limits of exposure and the making of minorities

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