Muslims’ Representation in Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A Critical Discourse Analysis
The Muslim community in America has been facing turmoil, particularly after the events of 9/11. Muslims are facing a number of anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim discriminatory practices, biases, and sentiments from many Americans. These religious prejudices are apparent at the public and political leader...
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| author | Khan, Mohsin Hassan Adnan, Hamedi Mohd Kaur, Surinderpal Khuhro, Rashid Ali Asghar, Rohail Jabeen, Sahira |
| author_facet | Khan, Mohsin Hassan Adnan, Hamedi Mohd Kaur, Surinderpal Khuhro, Rashid Ali Asghar, Rohail Jabeen, Sahira |
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| description | The Muslim community in America has been facing turmoil, particularly after the events of 9/11. Muslims are facing a number of anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim discriminatory practices, biases, and sentiments from many Americans. These religious prejudices are apparent at the public and political leadership levels, as well as other facets of the country. The current study has concentrated on Trump’s emerging ideology that positions him within anti-Islamic and anti- Muslim discourses since he announced his candidature for the presidency. The study aims to examine and pin point the self-other representations that are evident in the Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiments in Trump’s statements during the American Presidential Elections of 2016. In order to examine Trump’s prejudicial discourse, the research engaged with Critical Discourse Studies as its framework, with a specific focus upon Van Dijk’s Ideological Square Model as well as NVIVO 12 Pro for linguistic inquiry. The results showed that the self-other binary is strongly evidenced in Trump’s statements and that he employed various discursive techniques to represent Islam and Muslims in a negative manner, while representing himself as very patriotic to the country. To legitimatize his arguments, he deployed several rhetoric strategies, including victimization, presupposition, authority, number game, evidentiality, polarization, and populism. Keeping the religious and economic context in view, the research reveals that Donald Trump has represented Islam and Muslims as a negative phenomenon and presented himself as an Islamophobe by negatively targeting Islamic components, like Shariah and Jihad. In his prejudicial representation of Islam, most of the Islamic beliefs are represented as anti-women and anti-American, threatening the security of America and its very way of life. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-216272019-07-16T05:30:14Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/21627/ Muslims’ Representation in Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A Critical Discourse Analysis Khan, Mohsin Hassan Adnan, Hamedi Mohd Kaur, Surinderpal Khuhro, Rashid Ali Asghar, Rohail Jabeen, Sahira BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc Communication. Mass media The Muslim community in America has been facing turmoil, particularly after the events of 9/11. Muslims are facing a number of anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim discriminatory practices, biases, and sentiments from many Americans. These religious prejudices are apparent at the public and political leadership levels, as well as other facets of the country. The current study has concentrated on Trump’s emerging ideology that positions him within anti-Islamic and anti- Muslim discourses since he announced his candidature for the presidency. The study aims to examine and pin point the self-other representations that are evident in the Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiments in Trump’s statements during the American Presidential Elections of 2016. In order to examine Trump’s prejudicial discourse, the research engaged with Critical Discourse Studies as its framework, with a specific focus upon Van Dijk’s Ideological Square Model as well as NVIVO 12 Pro for linguistic inquiry. The results showed that the self-other binary is strongly evidenced in Trump’s statements and that he employed various discursive techniques to represent Islam and Muslims in a negative manner, while representing himself as very patriotic to the country. To legitimatize his arguments, he deployed several rhetoric strategies, including victimization, presupposition, authority, number game, evidentiality, polarization, and populism. Keeping the religious and economic context in view, the research reveals that Donald Trump has represented Islam and Muslims as a negative phenomenon and presented himself as an Islamophobe by negatively targeting Islamic components, like Shariah and Jihad. In his prejudicial representation of Islam, most of the Islamic beliefs are represented as anti-women and anti-American, threatening the security of America and its very way of life. MDPI 2019 Article PeerReviewed Khan, Mohsin Hassan and Adnan, Hamedi Mohd and Kaur, Surinderpal and Khuhro, Rashid Ali and Asghar, Rohail and Jabeen, Sahira (2019) Muslims’ Representation in Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Religions, 10 (2). p. 115. ISSN 2077-1444, DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020115 <https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020115>. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020115 doi:10.3390/rel10020115 |
| spellingShingle | BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc Communication. Mass media Khan, Mohsin Hassan Adnan, Hamedi Mohd Kaur, Surinderpal Khuhro, Rashid Ali Asghar, Rohail Jabeen, Sahira Muslims’ Representation in Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A Critical Discourse Analysis |
| title | Muslims’ Representation in Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A Critical Discourse Analysis |
| title_full | Muslims’ Representation in Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A Critical Discourse Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Muslims’ Representation in Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A Critical Discourse Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Muslims’ Representation in Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A Critical Discourse Analysis |
| title_short | Muslims’ Representation in Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A Critical Discourse Analysis |
| title_sort | muslims representation in donald trump s anti muslim islam statement a critical discourse analysis |
| topic | BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc Communication. Mass media |
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