My Critical Investigation Post *Islamphobia*

                               Year 13 Critical Investigation proposal form

Working title
Does the Media Encourage Islamphobia?

Angle
What impact has post 9/11 had on Muslim’s? Is the media encouraging Islamphobia in the sense of video games, T.V comedies and documentaries? Is this simply moral panic due to post 9/11 events?

Linked production piece

- Channel 4 style Documentary video report, looking at the impact of Muslim’s and non-Muslim views on Islamphobia. This documentary will include views of people from Southall (large Muslim community) the interviews will be with Mosque Leader, Female Muslim councillor of Southall, Business owners and Students. The non-muslims reports will be from the constable in charge of Southall police station, author of a book on Islamphobia and non Muslim members of the publics views.

-Advert for MAMA (which is a hotline for Muslim’s to ring if they have been assaulted for example a woman’s head scarf has been pulled off while shopping). This advert will show a muslim woman in a headscarf being treated differently to other because she is muslim and wears a headscarf. For example she gets stared at by people on the tube. It can be like a stop campaign against Islamphobia.

- Music video, similar to Lowkey Terrorist.

Research plan (media texts and academic texts)

Media texts
Channel 4 documentaries (Dispatches)

Panorama

Citizen Khan

Four lions

TV documentaries

BBC programme on undercover Muslim radicals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n8zwn/Week_In_Week_Out_Undercover_Islamic_Extremists/

Channel 4 documentary called “Islam the untold story”

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/islam-the-untold-story/4od

Academic texts

-      Christopher Allen: Islamophobia (1 Nov 2010)

ISBN: 978-0-7546-5140-6

ISBN Short: 9780754651406

-      Peter Gottschalk: Islamophobia, Making Muslims the Enemy (26 Jul 2007)

-      Humayun Ansari and Farid Hafez: From the Far Right to the Mainstream, Islamophobia in Party Politics and the Media (21 Aug 2012)

-      John L. Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin: Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century (14 Apr 2011)

-      Stephen Sheehi: Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims (15 Nov 2010)