Observatorio Islamofobia Por un periodismo inclusivo frente a la islamofobia
«Gendered Eurocentric Islamophobia and the Western Media» es un artículo académico que examina el vínculo oculto entre la «islamofobia de género» y el periodismo occidental. El principal objetivo del artículo según su autor es “criticar la cómplice cultura de satisfacción de consumidores y productores de noticias islamófobas en Occidente que ignora el relativismo cultural”.
The primary aim of this paper is to critique the complicit culture of contentment of consumers and producers of islamophobic news in the West that ignores cultural relativism. The substitution of universalist standards for women spread across diverse cultures with cosmopolitan standards for women that tend to normalize the dominant discourse of young, white middle-class women located in the Western centres of cultural and political power are discussed as it compromises all scopes for any objective rendition of journalism on Muslim women.
Journalism is nothing but drafting history in progress to inform and extend our social memory. As Siddiky (2007) argues, history in the making is drafted by journalists at present while it is crafted by the historian by investigating the past. When the same history drafted by the journalists at present is evaluated by the legislator in the future, the history drafted by the journalist becomes a tool for the vindication of the future, offering to what happened in the past a funeral service (p. 1). In other words, a discrepancy is being created by the journalists between what happened in the past and what was recorded at the present for its evaluation under changing circumstances in the future.
