Amid a surge in anti-Muslim rhetoric and incidents in 2015, the American media has embraced the word “Islamophobia” more than any other time in recent history, a new report shows.
Use of the word in news headlines in the United States quadrupled from 2014 to 2015, according to a report published Friday by the Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University. Whereas in 2014 there were just 147 news articles with “Islamophobia” in the headline, there were 542 such headlines in 2015.
For perspective, in 2002 there were only 22 headlines with the word “Islamophobia.”
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