Article Analysis

ARTICLE ANALYSIS

Article Analysis : Should We Fear Islam

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Article Analysis : Should We Fear Islam

Topic Background

Religion has long been a controversial topic in the human society due to the differences people have in views on this or that system of beliefs . Nowadays , the idea of the alleged danger of Islam for the society is one of the manifestations of the problem (Spencer 165 Shryok 281 . Accordingly , the article selected for the analysis in the current paper is

Should We Fear Islam ' by the first Muslim Senator of the USA , Keith Ellison (Ellison 2010 , the work that criticizes and questions such a politically incorrect idea as portraying Islam as a dangerous religion aimed at raising terrorists and promoting violence

Methodology

Naturally , addressing such a crucially important socio-political topic as the place of Islam in the modern society , one should make use of the best methodology for its analysis . According to de Vreese (2005 ) and Denzin (2008 , framing analysis is the most effective methodology for the consideration of news items , and the selected article will be analyzed using the framing method . Drawing from this , frame-building frame-setting , and the consequences of framing should be carried out as the three major stages of the process of news framing analysis (de Vreese 52

The analysis of the selected article is somewhat complicated by the presence of two frames . The first frame of Ellison 's (2010 ) article is the criticism of the media portraying Islam as...