The reading and viewing public are not passive consumers. They react to the media, and influence how it speaks to them. Globalisation is not sweeping all previously established values before it, but being embraced selectively. This places new demands on conscientious media workers. The media should take account of cultural, national and religious differences between...Read More

We have reached the fourth anniversary of the terrible attacks of September 11, 2001. I am sorry to say that, in my view, the U.S. and Western media have completely failed to meet the challenge of reporting on Islam in the four years since then, or in reaction to the atrocities that followed, including the...Read More

It cannot be denied that the events of the last few years in both the global and local arenas have had some impact on tensions between Muslims and nonMuslims. The 9-11 incident, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the rise of global terrorism have all posed inevitable challenges. The media plays a very important...Read More

The research strategy of the present paper is within a relatively new tradition in labor market research, initiated by the recent article by Besamusca, Tijdens, Keune and Steinmetz (2015), which does not exclude anymore the “religious factor” and what these authors call “gender ideology”. Our analysis of the “gender ideology” of Islamism and gender values...Read More