Anti-Prophet Muhammad Media

During the last three decades the biography and teachings of Prophet Muhammad have been the topic of the printed Western media. Based on recent dramatic changes in the political situations of the world after Sept 11th increased insult and depiction of the Prophet appeared particularly from 2005 in the US and many European countries. This book is a critical discourse analysis of the reproduction of linguistic and ideological aspects of three printed and social media controversies namely the Danish Cartoons Controversy (2005) the US film Innocence of Muslims (2012) and the Charlie Hebdo Caricatures (2012) in selected British and American newspapers particularly in The Guardian The Daily Mail The New York Times and USA Today. The suggested terms “Anti-Prophet Muhammad Media” and “Anti-Prophet Muhammad Agenda” are used to entitle these three controversies which deliberately presented the Prophet in disgraceful positions. The European controversies were based upon integration-agitation agenda aiming at moving Islam from positive multi-culturalism into negative civic integration while public diplomacy agenda seen in the US filmachieved through an implicit grey propaganda