Reiterating anti-Muslim rhetoric : interview practices of Fox News’ Hannity

• Main Author: Yacoub, Mohamed
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19213/1/Mohamed-Yacoub-IJIT-Vol-21-June-2022-228.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19213/; http://www.ukm.my/ijit/volume-21-june-2022/

Analyzing interviews with Muslim guests on Fox News’ Hannity reveals biased practices that trigger anti-Muslim sentiment and rhetoric. Muslim guests are asked leading questions, cornered (asked off topic questions and forced to respond), accused with hedge-less statements, faced with the technique of “polls say,” and labelled as “you” versus “us.” The result of such anti-Muslim sentiment is audience who have not been given the chance to listen, but a chance to hate. This paper, thus, calls for transformation in action so that we pushback against this sentiment and rhetoric.