Terrorism After 9/11: A Case Study

However, it is not to say that ‘newsworthiness’ made Ahmed famous but there is in fact something else. Ahmed’s father, Mr Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, believes that this incident due to his Muslim roots and because of September 11 (O’Maily 2015). While terrorism has always existed, following 9/11 there was a dramatic uprising in coverage relating to terrorism, counter terrorism measures and discrimination against Muslims (Poole and Richardson eds. 2006 p, 95). Pre-existing stereotypes made later vilification easier and faster to associate Muslims and terrorism (Bilci 2011). After the incident of 9/11, there was a 1600% increase in hate crimes against Muslims (Serrano 2002). However, this is not limited to the US only but the moral panic regarding Muslim expanded globally. Muslims have now become global aggressors. Elizabeth Poole (Poole and Richardson eds. 2006 p, 89) examined the British Muslims in broadsheet newspaper. After September 11 and the Iraq War she notes that the in coverage of British Muslims in newspaper there were five dominate topics. One of these topics includes terrorism (Poole and Richardson eds. 2006 p, 89). Poole’s research looked at the prominent Muslim figures such as …show more content…
2006 p, 140). Cherney and Murphy’s research (2015) interviewed Australian Muslims and their opinion in regards to media representation of Muslims. It was noted that there was a double standard and that Muslims were being singled out (Cherney and Murphy 2015). One participant commented that when it comes to Muslims, society would be quick to deem them ‘terrorist’ but when a non-Muslim commits terrorism he is just called ‘sick.’ (Cherney and Murphy 2015 p 7). Furthermore, whenever Muslims were mentioned in local media, 46% of the articles included the word terror thereby demonstrating the attribution between Muslims and the crime of terrorism (Poole and Richardson eds. 2006 p,