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Anti-Islam in the Media : 2001




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14. Examples

Newspaper:  The National Post
September 12 - November 25, 2001, more than 100 items in 65 days

(1)  
Date: 12/09/01
Title: Intelligence knew 'some group planning this'
Page: A5
Source: Peter Morton, NP
Terminology: Islamic terrorist groups

(2)  
Date: 12/09/01
Title: The legions that hate America
Page: D1 / D4
Source: Stewart Bell, NP
Terminology: Islamic-inspired terrorist movement, Islamic fundamentalist group

(3)  
Date: 12/09/01
Title: Bin Laden Believes Terror is his 'Heavenly Decree'
Page: D1
Source: Isabel Vincent, NP
Terminology: Islamic fundamentalists, fundamentalist Muslims, fanatical Muslim militant, militant Muslims

(4)  
Date: 12/09/01
Title: Restraint at home, but ruthless resolve
Page: D6
Source: Deroy Murdock, Scripps Howards News Service
Terminology: extremist Islamic group

(5)  
Date: 12/09/01
Title: The terror on the street
Page: B5
Source: Jonathan Gatehouse and Charlie Gillis, NP
Terminology: Islamic militia

(6)  
Date: 13/09/01
Title: NATO, CONGRESS JOIN BUSH FOR WAR ON TERRORISTS
Page: A1
Source: Jan Cienski and Bob Fife, NP
Terminology: Islamic radical

(7)  
Date: 13/09/01
Title: In the lair of the terrorist
Page: A8
Source: Isabel Vincent, NP
Terminology: radical Islam

(8)  
Date: 13/09/01
Title: Suspect has bonds with many countries
Page: A8
Source: Isabel Vincent, NP
Terminology: radical Islamic state, radical Islamists

(9)  
Date: 13/09/01
Title: Palestinian leaders rush to U.S. side of divide
Page: A9
Source: Alan Philps, Daily Telegraph
Terminology: Islamic militancy, Islamic activists

(10)  
Date: 13/09/01
Title: Infiltrate them
Page: A19
Source: Editorial
Terminology: Muslim fundamentalist

(11)  
Date: 13/09/01
Title: The Islamist Jihad
Page: B1
Source: Alexander Rose, NP
Terminology: Islamists

(12)  
Date: 14/09/01
Title: Cheering, U.S. enemies reveal themselves
Page: A14
Source: Daniel Pipes, NP
Terminology: Islamists

(13)  
Date: 14/09/01
Title: Harris and Klebold, writ large
Page: A14
Source: Jonathan Kay, NP
Terminology: Islamist fanatics, Islamists

(14)  
Date: 14/09/01
Title: Killing terrorists is an honourable thing to do
Page: A14
Source: G. Jonas, NP
Terminology: Islamic Jihad

(15)  
Date: 14/09/01
Title: Attack a sign of things to come
Page: B4
Source: George Will
Terminology: Islamic radicalism, Islamic militant

(16)  
Date: 15/09/01
Title: U.S. on War Footing
Page: A1
Source: Jan Cienski, NP
Terminology: fundamentalist Muslims

(17)  
Date: 15/09/01
Title: Suicide bombers guided by shame, humiliation
Page: A14
Source: David Pryce-Jones, NP
Terminology: Islamist impotence, Sunni Muslims

(18)  
Date: 15/09/01
Title: Vengeance via the Israeli model
Page: A14
Source: George Friedman, NP
Terminology: Islamic country

(19)  
Date: 15/09/01
Title: Misplaced anxieties
Page: A15
Source: Editorial
Terminology: Islamist killers

(20)  
Date: 15/09/01
Title: What is this thing we call the West?
Page: B1 / B4
Source: Alexander Rose, NP
Terminology: Islamist terrorism

(21)  
Date: 17/09/01
Title: Ottawa condemns Arafat for failure to halt terrorism
Page: A7
Source: Robert Fife, NP
Terminology: Islamic extremists

(22)  
Date: 17/09/01
Title: Infiltrating Canada
Page: A10
Source: Stewart Bell, NP
Terminology: radical Islamic beliefs, Canadian Islamic terrorist cells, Islamic extremism, radical Islamists

(23)  
Date: 17/09/01
Title: The war against The Enlightenment
Page: A15
Source: Editorial
Terminology: Islamist terrorists, Islamist regimes, Mohammedan rule, Islamic Jihad, Islamists

(24)  
Date: 17/09/01
Title: Incurable hate v. the modern world
Page: A14
Source: Clifford Orwin, NP
Terminology: Islamic terrorism

(25)  
Date: 17/09/01
Title: Destroy myths first, then terrorist states
Page: B4
Source: Barbara Amiel, NP
Terminology: extremist Islamic groups, extreme Islamic terrorists

(26)  
Date: 18/09/01
Title: Don't pay with Israeli currency
Page: A18
Source: Neill Lochery, NP
Terminology: Holy war

(27)  
Date: 19/09/01
Title: The war began in Iran in 1979
Page: A8
Source: Isabel Vincent, NP
Terminology: Islamist terrorist groups, Islamist terrorists

(28)  
Date: 19/09/01
Title: India fears Pakistan's 'bargain' with U.S.
Page: A10
Source: Rahul Bedi, Daily Telegraph
Terminology: Islamic guerrilla groups

(29)  
Date: 19/09/01
Title: Declaring and defining 'jihad' no simple task
Page: A13
Source: Isabel Vincent, NP
Terminology: radical Muslims

(30)  
Date: 19/09/01
Title: The Islamic world has never forgotten its past
Page: A17
Source: Jeet Heer, NP
Terminology: Islamic fundamentalists

(31)  
Date: 19/09/01
Title: Get governments out of terrorism business
Page: A18
Source: Richard Perle, Daily Telegraph
Terminology: Great Satan, Islamic fundamentalist

(32)  
Date: 19/09/01
Title: Inside the ranks of the Taleban
Page: A18
Source: Alexander Rose, NP
Terminology: Islamist indoctrination

(33)  
Date: 19/09/01
Title: Blaming the U.S., whitewashing terror
Page: A19
Source: Editorial
Terminology: Muslim-led oligopoly, OPEC, US Muslim-Islamist

(34)  
Date: 20/09/01
Title: Tittering at the victims' values
Page: A18
Source: Mark Steyn, NP
Terminology: western values [vs Islamic]

(35)  
Date: 22/09/01
Title: Mideast ceasefire remains fragile
Page: A9
Source: Timothy Heritage, Reuters
Terminology: militant Muslim groups

(36)  
Date: 22/09/01
Title: Treat terrorist states as belligerents
Page: A12
Source: George Jonas
Terminology: Infamous [Islamic]

 (37)  
Date: 22/09/01
Title: This is no time for agonized relativism
Page: A12
Source: Charles Krauthammer
Terminology: plots of evil [of Islam]

(38)  
Date: 22/09/01
Title: U.S. accelerates war preparation in the face of growing defiance
Page: A1
Source: NP
Terminology: militant Hezbollah Mujahedeen

(39)  
Date: 22/09/01
Title: Anglosphere girds for war
Page: B1
Source: Alexander Rose, NP
Terminology: Islamic Jihad

(40)  
Date: 24/09/01
Title: Terrorism agendas clash in Pakistan
Page: A7
Source: Arnaud de Borchgrave, UPI
Terminology: Islamist extremists

(41)  
Date: 25/09/01
Title: Charity denies ties to terrorism
Page: A2
Source: Stewart Bell and Andrew McIntosh, NP
Terminology: Islamic terrorism

(42)  
Date: 25/09/01
Title: Making a fragile ceasefire permanent
Page: A14
Source: Neill Lochery, NP
Terminology: Islamic Jihad

 (43)  
Date: 26/09/01
Title: Islamist on trial has links to Montreal, bin Laden
Page: A10
Source: Stewart Bell, NP
Terminology: Islamic extremists

(44)  
Date: 26/09/01
Title: Interpol looking for bin Laden's No. 2 man
Page: A11
Source: Stewart Bell, NP
Terminology: Al Jihad

(45)  
Date: 27/09/01
Title: Call them what they are - terrorists
Page: A18
Source: John O'Sullivan
Terminology: Islamic fundamentalist

(46)  
Date: 28/09/01
Title: Vigilance, not vigilantism
Page: A14
Source: George Jonas, NP
Terminology: Islam-militant Muslim mobs, While 99.9% of Muslims and Arabs aren't terrorists, 100% of terrorists who now threaten us are Muslims and/or Arabs

(47)  
Date: 28/09/01
Title: Concordia disgraced by its student union
Page: A14
Source: Jonathan Kay
Terminology: [radical] Quebec City or Gaza

(48)  
Date: 28/09/01
Title: After the Taleban...
Page: A15
Source: Editorials
Terminology: brand of Islam

(49)  
Date: 28/09/01
Title: No sense of decency, indeed
Page: A15
Source: Andrew Coyne, NP
Terminology: Nazis [and Muslims]

(50)  
Date: 29/09/01
Title: How bin Laden uses Canada to prepare his terrorists
Page: A1 / A13
Source: Stewart Bell, NP
Terminology: Islamic terrorists

(51)  
Date: 29/09/01
Title: Don't buff the sharp edges off Islam
Page: A14
Source: Robert Fulford, NP
Terminology: Jihad, Of six recent conflicts where more than 200,000 people died, only one did not involve Muslims

(52)  
Date: 29/09/01
Title: Without a shot fired, terrorists are on the run
Page: A14
Source: John Keegan, Daily Telegraph
Terminology: Islamic training camp

(53)  
Date: 29/09/01
Title: It's a question of knowing who to hate
Page: A14
Source: Christie Blatchford, NP
Terminology: terrorists, Islam

(54)  
Date: 01/10/01
Title: Hezbollah desperate for political legitimacy
Page: A1
Source: Marina Jimenez, NP
Terminology: Hezbollah, the Islamic "Party of God"

(55)  
Date: 01/10/01
Title: Relentlessly, thoroughly, the only way to respond
Page: A16
Source: Paul Johnson
Terminology: militant Islam, Islamic terrorists, Islam is an imperialist religion, Islam remains a religion of the Dark Ages, the West is not alone in being under threat from Islamic expansion, Muslim rule has tended both to promote and to perpetuate poverty, Islamic terrorism

(56)  
Date: 01/10/01
Title: Koran's messages can be twisted
Page: A16
Source: Laurie Goodstien, NYT
Terminology: Muslim militants

(57)  
Date: 01/10/01
Title: Why must evil have a cause?
Page: A17
Source: Andrew Coyne, NP
Terminology: Nazis [and Muslims]

(58)  
Date: 02/10/01
Title: Harbour terrorists - and your regime dies
Page: A18
Source: Charles Krauthammer, NYT
Terminology: Radical Islam

(59)  
Date: 04/10/01
Title: More than the sum of our stuff
Page: A18
Source: Maureen Dowd
Terminology: Islamic warriors

(60)  
Date: 04/10/01
Title: Bush can't fight terror by appeasing Arafat
Page: A18
Source: Neill Lochery, NP
Terminology: Islamic Jihad, Hamas militants

(61)  
Date: 04/10/01
Title: Pacifists' ill-breeding scorns actual people
Page: A18
Source: Mark Steyn, NP
Terminology: Stalinish [and Muslims]

(62)  
Date: 04/10/01
Title: Fighting terrorism on the home front
Page: A19
Source: Editorials
Terminology: al-Qaedad [Islamic] Hamas

(63)  
Date: 05/10/01
Title: Bin Laden as Bubba... Ooh, how daring!
Page: A14
Source: Peter Scowen
Terminology: Islamic extremist

(64)  
Date: 06/10/01
Title: We will prove to you...he is a mass killer
Page: A1 / A8
Source: Alan Dershowitz
Terminology: Nazis [and Muslims]

(65)  
Date: 06/10/01
Title: From delusions to destruction
Page: A17
Source: Robert Fulford, NP
Terminology: Islamic radicals, Islamic terrorists

(66)  
Date: 08/10/01
Title: Extremists demand Jihad
Page: A4
Source: Marina Jimenez, NP
Terminology: Islamic extremists

(67)  
Date: 08/10/01
Title: A test of what we are
Page: A1 / A16
Source: Christie Blatchford, NP
Terminology: Hitler [and Muslims]

(68)  
Date: 08/10/01
Title: Mortal enemies are to be destroyed
Page: A21
Source: George Jonas, NP
Terminology: Fundamentalists appear to be historically legitimate branch of the tree of Islam

(69)  
Date: 08/10/01
Title: A different kind of war indeed
Page: A21
Source: John Keegan
Terminology: Islamic nationality

(70)  
Date: 08/10/01
Title: There were two declarations of war
Page: A22
Source: Daniel Pipes, NP
Terminology: Islamists

(71)  
Date: 08/10/01
Title: Exploding the blowback fallacy in U.S. relations
Page: A22
Source: Jonathan Kay, NP
Terminology: Islamic militant

(72)  
Date: 09/10/01
Title: What the Afghans need is colonizing
Page: A1 / A10
Source: Mark Steyn, NP
Terminology: anti-Christian [Muslims]

(73)  
Date: 09/10/01
Title: A war between civilizations
Page: A18
Source: Robert Fulford, NP
Terminology: Islam is a culture

(74)  
Date: 09/10/01
Title: A war of necessity
Page: A19
Source: Editorial
Terminology: Islamist group, radical Islamist groups

(75)  
Date: 10/10/01
Title: Arafat wins rare praise from Israel
Page: A6
Source: Alan Philps, Daily Telegraph
Terminology: Islamic militants

(76)  
Date: 10/10/01
Title: Radical Islamism: 'bastard child' of Marxism
Page: A14
Source: John O'Sullivan, UPI
Terminology: Muslim supporting the terrorist war, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic roots, Radical Islamism, Islamic world, Islamic force

(77)  
Date: 10/10/01
Title: Reckoning time for Muslim 'moderates'
Page: A15
Source: Editorials
Terminology: Islamic Jihad

(78)  
Date: 11/10/01
Title: How to frustrate further attacks
Page: A14
Source: John Keegan, Daily Telegraph
Terminology: terrorist usurper

(79)  
Date: 11/10/01
Title: Living in the shadow of terror
Page: A14
Source: Patricia Pearson
Terminology: victory for Islam

(80)  
Date: 12/10/01
Title: The Taliban find buyers in the market
Page: A6
Source: Marina Jimenez, NP
Terminology: radical Islamic parties

(81)  
Date: 12/10/01
Title: Uzbekistan, at least, is 'our bastard'
Page: A12
Source: Jan Cienski, NP
Terminology: Islamists

(82)  
Date: 13/10/01
Title: Rage, pathos and theological spin
Page: A14
Source: Robert Fulford, NP
Terminology: Koranic [teachings]

(83)  
Date: 15/10/01
Title: Israel tracks, kills Islamic suspect in club bombing
Page: A4
Source: Reuters
Terminology: Islamic militant

(84)  
Date: 15/10/01
Title:

 Muslim mushrooms, terrorist toadstools*
Page: A14
Source: George Jonas, NP
Terminology: Islamist terrorists (three times), Fifth columnists usher bin Laden within our perimeter

(85)  
Date: 15/10/01
Title: Unleash CSIS
Page: A15
Source: Editorials
Terminology: a small but substantial number of Canadian Muslims and Arabs are willing to assist terrorist operations

(86)  
Date: 15/10/01
Title: The Arab strategy to isolate Israel
Page: A14
Source: Neill Lochery, NP
Terminology: Radical Islamic group, Islamic extremism

(87)  
Date: 15/10/01
Title: Saudis are behind all the 'root causes'
Page: A14
Source: Mark Steyn, NP
Terminology: Islamic fundamentalist

(88)  
Date: 18/10/01
Title: A healthy dose of 'bigotry'
Page: A16
Source: Jonathan Kay, NP's Editorials editor
Terminology: who plot the annihilation of our civilization are of one religion [Islam] and almost without exception one race [Arabs]

(89)  
Date: 20/10/01
Title: Fighting terrorism is its own reward
Page: A13
Source: Editorial
Terminology: Islamist militants, Islamist rebels

(90)  
Date: 23/10/01
Title: Bombing in India reflects anti-U.S. mood
Page: A4
Source: Reuters
Terminology: Islamic militants

(91)  
Date: 24/10/01
Title: U.S. wants to fight its war in peace
Page: A12
Source: George Jonas, NP
Terminology: Muslim terrorists, Islamist terrorists

(92)  
Date: 25/10/01
Title: Sectarian Violence...
Page: A9
Source: Reuters
Terminology: Muslim militants

(93)  
Date: 25/10/01
Title: NATO quashes plot to attack bases in Bosnia
Page: A9
Source: National Post News Services
Terminology: Muslim extremists

(94)  
Date: 25/10/01
Title: Squeezing Israel weakens a vital ally
Page: A14
Source: Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., NP
Terminology: Islamist terror

(95)  
Date: 26/10/01
Title: House of Saud keeps the peace at home by exporting trouble to the rest of the world
Page: A1
Source: Isabel Vincent, NP
Terminology:  Islamist terrorist, Islamist totalitarianism, Islamist militants, Islamist fundamentalist

(96)  
Date: 26/10/01
Title: Let's shatter the terrorist hothouse
Page: A12
Source: Elizabeth Nickson, NP
Terminology: Islamofascist, Islamic Crypto-fascism

(97)  
Date: 27/10/01
Title: CSIS Links Refugee to Al-Qaeda
Page: A3
Source: Tom Blackwell, NP
Terminology: Islamic extremist

(98)  
Date: 27/10/01
Title: Eight Muslim fighters killed in Kashmir
Page: A8
Source: Reuters
Terminology: Muslim separatists, Muslim separatist violence

(99)  
Date: 27/10/01
Title: Oil and Terror
Page: A13
Source: Isabel Vincent, NP
Terminology: militant Islamist

(100)  
Date: 29/10/01
Title: Religious minorities endure bloody tradition
Page: A6
Source: Daily Telegraph
Terminology: Muslim militants, Muslim rebels

(101)  
Date: 29/10/01
Title: 15 Christians massacred at Pakistani church
Page: A6
Source: Daily Telegraph
Terminology: Islamic extremists

(102)  
Date: 29/10/01
Title: 'Better safe than sorry' adage puts rights at risk
Page: A14
Source: Paula Simons, Edmonton Journal
Terminology: Fundamentalist Muslim

(103)  
Date: 31/10/01
Title: Israel deserves better from UN
Page: A14
Source: Brian Mulroney, NP
Terminology: Islamic militants, fundamentalist Islamic terrorists

(104)  
Date: 09/11/01
Title: Bush to snub Arafat at UN; says he lacks commitment
Page: A12
Source: The Associated Press
Terminology: militant Islamic groups

(105)  
Date: 10/11/01
Title: Inside the mind of a suicide bomber
Page: A1
Source: NP
Terminology: militant Muslim organizations, militant Islam

(106)  
Date: 12/11/01
Title: War on terror goes to Alaska
Page: A10
Source: C. Krauthammer, Washington Post Writers Group
Terminology: radical Islam

(107)  
Date: 15/11/01
Title: When you defeat an enemy...
Page: A15
Source: Jonathan Kay, NP
Terminology: Militant Islam

(108)  
Date: 20/11/01
Title: U.S. wins respect with its victories
Page: A14
Source: Daniel Pipes
Terminology: militant Islam (seven times), militant Islamic men, militant Islamic elements

(109)  
Date: 21/11/01
Title: The threat is real
Page: A17
Source: Editorial
Terminology: Sunni Islamic extremist groups


15. Recommendations

Anti-Islam in the media instigates hate against a minority group.  It is a quality issue.

The following recommendations are designed to enhance the quality of delivering news and views, free of anti-Islam:

  1. The membership of large newspapers in Press Councils.
  2. Ombud offices in large newspapers and TV networks.
  3. More Canadian journalists covering world news.
  4. Holding workshops on quality news coverage and sensitivity writing.
  5. Changing newsroom culture; it is no longer acceptable to maintain the image of:
    • the violent young Black man
    • the miser Christ-killer Jew
    • the militant bearded young Muslim man
    • the oppressed brainless Muslim woman with Hijab
    • the drunken Native
    • the dagger-carrying militant Sikh
  6. Offering Media Scholarships to achieve diversity (race, religion, gender, culture...).
  7. Equity Hiring to achieve diversity (race, religion, gender, culture...).
  8. Rewarding journalists for quality, sensitive and informative coverage.
  9. Recognizing readers’ rights to communicate.
  10. Offering sabbaticals to journalists to write in-depth features on Canada’s diversity.

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