#WhatBritishMuslimsReallyThink

Photo: Trevor Phillips, Channel 4

BBC News, What some Muslims think of 'what British Muslims really think', 11 Apr 2016 "What do British Muslims really think? It's a question that news organisations have repeatedly tried to answer since the terror attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, and one that suggests that maybe the person asking isn't a British Muslim."

Also see Channel 4, What British Muslims Really Think

ICM Data Set is here

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I haven't looked at any of this material in detail yet. 

Egyptian newspapers

Mustafa Suleiman, alarabiya.net, New independent newspapers see the light in post-revolution Egypt, 23 Nov 2011 "Despite the economic crisis Egypt has faced since the eruption of the January 25 revolution, print media outlets are currently enjoying a boom and the launch of several independent newspapers bears witness to a new era that wants to do away with official and businessmen’s press."

Media coverage of Islam

Get Religion, Anwar al-Awlaki’s many faces, 3 Oct 2011 opinion: "Anwar al-Awlaki was reportedly killed by a U.S. drone strike on Friday morning. He was as the New York Times describes him “the American-born cleric whose fiery sermons made him a larger-than-life figure in the shadowy world of jihad.” "But that is not how the New York Times always described him. It’s interesting to review the coverage he received over the years and what, if anything, that can tell us about media coverage of Islam in America."

OBL media re-evaluated

Baker Atyani, alarabiya.net, Osama Bin Laden meets the media, 9 May 2011 "The United States may not find much in Bin Laden’s house except some media and cultural content. The US may have possibly found very little about Al Qaeda, its network ties, strategies and planning.

"As such, it is important to re-consider the US announcement that it found a treasure throve of information about Al Qaeda."

op-ed on Yemen and the media

Jane Novak, weeklyblitz.net, Comparative Counterinsurgency in Yemen, 6 Oct 2010

"AQAP often references a hadith predicting 12,000 warriors will arise from Yemen in defense of Islam. Although the dozens of wild-eyed al-Qa'ida fanatics in Yemen claim this legacy as their own, the army is already here. It is Yemen's reformers and they are being slaughtered on the streets, tortured in jail, and starved of food and education. Nonetheless, this is the winning side. And they deserve U.S. recognition on both moral and tactical grounds. The key to the productive political engagement of Yemeni youth is the internet and print media. Media repression inhibits expression of the national consensus, splinters reformers, and short-circuits accountability. It is imperative that the United States robustly support the civil and human rights of Yemenis and especially the right of journalists to perform their jobs without retribution. The structural remedy to corruption, violence against civilians, and extremist thinking is a free press. The shortcut to a Yemen that performs in the best interests of its citizens is an unfettered independent media."

Op-ed on Facebook protests

Ramzy Baroud, ZCommunications, Facebook and Muslim Outrage: Gleaning the Wrong Lesson, Again, 6 Jun 2010 "The naïve depiction by Western media makes it easy for ‘freedom of expression’ enthusiasts to condemn Muslims for yet again failing the democracy test.

"The latest Facebook episode is a remake of the same old story. Some ill-intended ‘artist’, under the guise of freedom of speech, takes on a confrontational mission, knowing fully the response such an act would generate, and perhaps the lives that would be lost. Muslim masses, predictably, respond through angry protests, burning flags, denouncing America, Israel, Zionism, Facebook, Youtube and so on. Strangely, the very governments that are considered US allies tend to be on the forefront of condemning the ‘blasphemous’ provocations. Muslim masses are thus exploited on all fronts - by the media, by anti-Muslims, by rightwing forces in the West, and their own governments."

Report on conference: ‘Terrorism: Between Intellectual Extremism and Extremist Ideology’

Huda al-Salih, Asharq Alawsat, Debate at Counterterrorism Conference Rages, 2 Apr 2010 "Sheikh Mohamed al-Nujaimi, Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence at the Higher Institute of Law at the Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh ignited this fierce ideological debate by demanding "the suspension of those in the media and putting an end to their excesses and attacks on the people of knowledge." This outburst led to many of the media figures present at the conference demanding an explanation for the reasons behind the absence of a critical approach to religious thought, as well as the reasons why religious students criticize [opposing] religious symbols."

Digital Disruption

John Domokos and Haroon Siddique, Guardian, How young Muslims are fighting extremist propaganda, 29 Jan 2010

"The communities secretary, John Denham, has promised to make changes to the anti-extremism programme Prevent after Islamic groups accused it of stigmatising all Muslims as terrrorists and even spying on them. Haroon Siddique talks to participants on one of the schemes, the Digital Disruption project, about the value of what they are learning."

There's an interesting video attached to the above page.

Islam and the Media conference postscript(s)

Stewart Hoover's Blog, Islam and the Media, 14 Jan 2010 "This morning, NPR’s Morning Edition ran a story about online Jihadism. Ordinarily this would not have been notable, but I found it personally ironic, given that we just concluded a conference titled “Islam and the Media” here in Boulder this past weekend. It featured 104 papers from scholars across a wide range of disciplines and keynote presentations from global experts on things ranging from digital Islam to Muslim popular culture to news framing to emerging Muslim voices in the media sphere. Over 140 people attended from five continents and 21 countries. NPR new about it. So did CNN, BBC, and our local media here in the metro area. Did any of them come? No."

Also see Nabil Echchaibi, Stop Asking Where Moderate Muslims Are?, 15 Jan 2010 "It became ever clearer to me after our conference on Islam and the Media that journalists do not work hard to seek out alternative Muslim voices to counteract the extremism of radical Islam."