Discursive integration and Muslims in Australia

Farquharson and Sohrabi-Haghighat's chapter adds a new perspective to discussions of social inclusion by investigating the discursive integration of Muslims in Australia. Through a content analysis of Australian newspaper articles on Islam and Muslims they demonstrate that the print media not only supports the global and Orientalist discourse on Islam as fundamentalist, barbaric, violent, but continues to represent Muslims as a threatening other. This, according to the authors, alienates Australian Muslims and undermines their ability and desire to be socially connected when they are exposed to stories which depicts them as incompatible with so-called western values and beliefs.