The Canadian Islamic Congress today released its sixth annual media-watch study of major Canadian newspapers, based on research gathered throughout 2003; and for the fourth year in a row, the National Post was ranked as worst offender for its persistent use of anti-Islam terminology.

From 1998 (the year Anti-Islam in the Media was launched) until September 11, 2001, CIC media research showed a modest average annual reduction of 17% in the use of anti-Islam language and terminology. Following that watershed date, however, and continuing during 2002, the data gathered revealed a substantial reversal of this trend. By 2003, the level of anti-Islam occurring in the Canadian media had returned to pre-9/11 levels.

The CIC's Anti-Islam in the Media research project received a 2003 Award of Honour from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and has been consistently praised by academic experts in the fields of media and communications, race relations and religious studies.

This annual study presents a methodical and carefully documented assessment of the use of anti-Islam terminology by a strong cross-section of Canadian media, focusing particularly on print journalism. CIC's original and ongoing mandate has been to draw public and professional attention to the use and misuse of terms such as: "Islamic-inspired terrorist attacks," "murderous Islamic militant," "Islamic terrorist," "Muslim militant," etc.

The study covers news and views published by eight of Canada's top-circulation daily newspapers -- the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Winnipeg Free Press, and La Presse. For 2003, however, the study did not rank the Toronto Sun and Winnipeg Free Press, due to their lower levels of international news coverage.

As in several previous studies, the National Post scored 100 points -- the maximum possible in the survey's ranking system -- for its recurrent use of anti-Islam language and terminology. It has been the only paper in Canada to do so. The Reuters news service recently criticized CanWest Global (The Post's parent corporation) for its editorial policy of inserting the word "terrorist" into its news stories selected for print by CanWest editorial staff. However, The most news items with anti-Islam language were written by Stewart Bell of the National Post, followed by staff writers of the Associated Press and Reuters.

In 2002, a pilot broadcast media research project examined televised anti-Islam usage over 60 days. Three Canadian evening news "flagship" broadcasts -- from the CTV, Global, and CBC networks -- were analysed for ranking. CBC and Global scored worst for the frequency and intensity of their anti-Islam references, followed by CTV, which had the least offensive content.

In 2003 the TV news ranking period was extended to a full year and the results showed Global as the worst offender, followed by CBC. CTV was again found to be least offensive in its coverage.

Also in 2003, CIC research focused for the first time on citing the daily paper that performed most positively in its coverage of "religion in public life." That distinction went to the Ottawa Citizen. Although the Citizen does not run an exclusive religion page, it covers religion-related news stories extensively and runs a regular informative feature called "Ask the Religion Experts."

The CIC's 2003 Anti-Islam In The Media research report is now available in its entirety online at:

http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/rr/rr_2003.php

The CIC's 2004 Anti-Islam In The Media research report will be released next month.

CONTACT:

Dr. Mohamed Elmasry

(519) 746-4107 (O)

(519) 577-2267 (Cell)

e-mail: np@canadianislamiccongress.com

Mrs. Wahida Valiante

(905) 771-1023,

e-mail: nvp@canadianislamiccongress.com

FOR FRENCH MEDIA:
Dr. Mohamed Nekili
(514) 745-1255
e-mail: mohamed.nekili@sympatico.ca

1. WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY
ABOUT CIC’S MEDIA RESEARCH PROJECT

As a researcher in the area of media and diversity, and a professor at one of Canada’s leading journalism schools, .it’s safe to say that the CIC efforts over the past five years have had a real effect in getting many media outlets to ‘think twice’ about stigmatizing and stereotyping the Muslim community in words, images and story selection. While organizations representing many ethnic and religious groups have expressed concerns about media coverage, the CIC has done something about it.”

-- Prof. John Miller, director of newspaper journalism, Ryerson University

As a scholar, analyzing bias in the media for the last two decades, I believe the pioneering research of the CIC on the nature of anti-Islam bias in Canadian newspapers has been instrumental in increasing a greater awareness and sense of responsibility by many Canadian journalists and editors. It can be argued that the research and the dissemination of the findings of these studies have helped to reduce the frequency and the intensity of anti-Islam language and images. In a recent book by Frances Henry and I (University of Toronto Press, 2002), Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the English-Language Press, we specifically note the important contribution that the CIC has made in its careful and consistent monitoring of the press. In my classroom, I use these research findings as an educational tool in helping students identify bias in the news. As well, the CIC presents a powerful model of effective community mobilization in the search for a more responsible and non-biased media.”

-- Prof. Carol Tator, course director, York University

As you know, I have used [CIC’s] annual studies in a number of my writing and reporting classes and I have had a Montreal member of the CIC come to speak to journalism students. I also participated in an ‘Anti-Islam in the Canadian Media’ workshop staged [by the CIC] in Montreal in September, 2000. [CIC’s] work is an important way to introduce future journalists to critical research and to open their eyes to biases in the Canadian news media. As a teacher and a researcher in the journalism field, I know how hard it is to come by concrete, Canadian-based evidence to support informed criticism of the news media. [CIC] studies not only compare the treatment of Islam by a number of Canadian daily newspapers, but over time, indicate trends toward improvement or, sadly, exacerbation.”

-- Prof. Mike Gasher, Ph.D., Department of Journalism, Concordia University

As someone who worked in the media for 25 years -- and now teaches journalism to aspiring journalists -- I cannot stress too strongly how important I consider [CIC’s] work to be. I say this for several reasons:

1. The media need to be held accountable.

2. The public needs to know what is being disseminated in the ‘big picture.’

3. Educators can use this material in the classroom.

I teach a first year Journalism course to 220 students [and] use the CIC’s research study. I find it an excellent way to introduce them to the need for covering diversity in a fair and even-handed way.”

-- Prof. Lois Sweet, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University

Anti-Islamic rhetoric in the media is a serious problem since it paints adherents of a religious group with the same brush. I have read previous reports on this issue by the CIC and found them intelligent, rigorous, and useful.”

-- Prof. David Seljak, PhD, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Director, St. Jerome’s Centre for Catholic Experience, At the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

The Canadian Islamic Congress

Anti-Islam in the Media

The Sixth Annual Report

2003

2. INTRODUCTION

Anti-Islam in the Canadian media instigates hate against a minority group. Hate also jeopardizes the mental and physical well-being of its individuals, especially those most vulnerable -- the children. Hate-mongering is against Canadian cultural values and Canadian law.

The Canadian Islamic Congress is striving to minimize anti-Islam in the media before any more of our children and youth suffer needlessly.

This is the sixth annual study released by Anti-Islam in the Canadian Media, an ongoing project conducted by the Canadian Islamic Congress. Its purpose is to evaluate coverage and to articulate CIC’s view by citing examples of the offending material. This study is not an opinion poll, but rather a reflection of what the Muslim community and CIC consider a serious problem affecting virtually every household of Muslim Canadians.

Through this study, the CIC hopes to increase the awareness of media professionals of this serious and growing problem.

3. Anti-Islam in Canadian media feeds
‘Image Distortion Disorder’

The distorted perception that Islam condones and encourages violence is largely created by the media and it leads to societal anxiety among Canadians. This is called image distortion disorder.”

Image distortion disorder is particularly dangerous in Canada, with its substantial multi-ethnic, multi-faith, and multi-cultural populations.

Among most Canadians who have not knowingly ever met a Muslim in person, there is high likelihood that their perception of Muslim Canadians will be distorted. Canadian media -- particularly the National Post in recent years -- are creating a social crisis based on the religion of one identifiable group. This national crisis manifests itself in loss of identity and self-esteem, feelings of inferiority, and even suicidal tendencies, especially among teenagers.

And image distortion disorder inevitably leads to discrimination, hate-mongering, acts of vandalism, and false accusation by authorities. Young Muslim Canadians of dark complexion, especially women with hijabs (traditional head coverings), or males with full beards, are particularly vulnerable to anxiety, fear and discrimination because of society’s perception that their religion is violent, backward, restrictive, fundamentalist, and intolerant of opposing or alternative viewpoints.

Worse still is the portrayal of Muslim Canadians as potential terrorists, posing such a serious danger” to the country, that CSIS, the RCMP and local police should target them, revoke their citizenship if they are citizens, or ship them back home” if they are not.

But the reality is that Islam is not everything the media depicts. There appears to be no balance of coverage regarding news or views related to Islam and Muslims, and very little that shows Muslims in a positive light.

Anti-Islam in the media has a devastating effect on every Canadian who cares about the well-being of this country and it insidiously undermines every effort to sustain our social and civil peace.

Treating the media’s entrenched anti-Islam disease” will not be easy, especially when publications like the National Post refuse to recognize that a problem even exists. And Canadian Muslims are not likely to own media outlets large or influential enough to counteract the toxic effect that media distortion and bias have had upon non-Muslims’ understanding of their religion.

Those of us concerned about social harmony in this country must therefore react to all distortion and bias in the media by raising our voices in protest.

Image distortion disorder is real in the Canadian media. It creeps subtly into our consciousness. Only if all of us point out and acknowledge its existence, do we begin to effectively deal with it and isolate those who live in denial, insisting that it does not exist.

The Canadian Islamic Congress

Tel (519) 746-1242, Fax (519) 746-2929

Email: cic@canadianislamiccongress.com

http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com

4. AN ANTI-ISLAM GLOSSARY.. as used by Canadian Newspapers

ENGLISH:

- Armed Islamic group

- Canadian-based Islamic extremist

- Extreme: branches of Islam

- Extremist: Islamic group, Islamic regime

- Hard-line: Islamic regime, Muslims, Muslim regime

- Global Islamic militancy

- Fanatic: Islamic

- Fundamentalist: Islamic terror, Islamic terrorist, strain of Sunni Islam

- International: Islamic extremist, Islamic movement militancy

- Islamic: dictatorship, extremist, extremist group, extremism, fighters, fundamentalist, fundamentalism, fundamentalist terrorist groups, hard-liner, -inspired terrorist attacks, insurgency, insurgent, Jihad, Jihad militant, guerrillas, militia, hard-liners, hijacker, forces militancy, militant, militant group, purists, radical, radicalism, rebel, resistance, separatists, suicide bomber, terrorist, terrorist cells, terrorist group, terrorism, violence

- Islamist: cell, terrorism, group, militancy

- Militant: Islamic, Islamic government, Islamic group, Islamic organization, Islamic mullahs, Islamist group, Muslim

- Murderous: Islamic militant

- Muslim: activist, dictator, extremist, fundamentalist, fundamentalist militant, guerrillas, militia, militant, mercenaries, mob, vigilant group, rebel

- Puritanical Islamic militia

- Radical: armed Islamic group, Islam, Islamic fighters, Islamic group, Islamic militia, Islamist, Islamist group, Muslim, Muslim faction, Muslim organization, Islamic militant

- Violent Islamic group

5. AN ANTI-ISLAM GLOSSARY.. as used by Canadian Newspapers

FRENCH:

- Contagion islamiste

- Extremiste: musulman, islamiste

- Fanatisme islamique

- Fondamentaliste islamiste

- Groupe arme islamiste

- Guerilleros musulmans

- Islamistes armes

- Manif: islamistes, musulmane

- Maquisards islamistes

- Mercenaires musulmans

- Menace: islamiste, islamique

- Milice: islamique, islamiste

- Mouvement islamiste

- Terroristes islamistes

NEWSPAPER GRADING CRITERIA (worst - to - bad)

#	Description	Points
1	Identifying Muslims by their religion when they are involved in violent acts	100
2	Interring that Islam is intolerant and an extreme religion that teaches, endorses or condones acts of violence	90
3	Use of the term Muslim Terrorists”, etc.	80
4	Use of the term Muslim Militants”, etc.	70
5	Use of the term Muslim Extremists”, etc.	60
6	Use of the term Muslim Fundamentalists”, etc.	50
7	Propagating negative stereotypes about Islam	40
8	Being culturally insensitive, for example to religious practices, dress code, food or social customs	30
9	Selective presentation and analysis of events and the use of popular experts”	20
10	Failing to offer a balanced view on political events related to Muslims	10

How The Grading Is Done:

1) Each published item was first evaluated (max. points:100) given the above criteria, the resulting numerical rating was then multiplied by the following weighting factors:

a) front page items 2.00

b) titles, photo caption or cartoon 1.80

c) weekend edition factor 1.40

d) repetition of anti-Islam terminologies in the same item 1.30

2) The points from step (1) were then multiplied by a circulation factor as follows:

La Presse 1

The Montreal Gazette 1

The Ottawa Citizen 1

The Globe and Mail 2

The National Post 2

The Toronto Star 3

2003 NEWSPAPER RANKING
(Without Circulation Factor) (worst - to - bad)

#	Newspaper	Relative Points (max 100)
1	National Post	100
2	Globe and Mail	36
3	Ottawa Citizen	22
4	Toronto Star	18
5	Montreal Gazette	11
6	La Presse	10

2003 NEWSPAPER RANKING
(With Circulation Factor) (worst - to - bad)

#	Newspaper	Relative Points (max 100)
1	National Post	100
2	Globe and Mail	36
3	Toronto Star	27
4	Ottawa Citizen	11
5	Montreal Gazette	5
6	La Presse	5

2003 NEWSPAPER RANKING (worst - to - bad)
Compared to 2002, 2001, 1999 & 1998

Not including circulation factor: a measure of anti-Islam

#	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998
1	National Post	National Post	National Post	National Post	La Presse	Toronto Star
2	Globe and Mail	Ottawa Citizen	Montreal Gazette	Ottawa Citizen	Montreal Gazette	Globe and Mail
3	Ottawa Citizen	Montreal Gazette	Ottawa Citizen	Montreal Gazette	Globe and Mail	Montreal Gazette
4	Toronto Star	La Presse	Globe and Mail	La Presse	Toronto Star	Ottawa Citizen
5	Montreal Gazette	Toronto Star	Chronicle Herald	Globe and Mail	Ottawa Citizen	Toronto Sun
6	La Presse	Globe and Mail	La Presse	Toronto Star	National Post	-
7	-	Winnipeg Free Press	Toronto Star	-	-	-

Including circulation factor; a measure of harmful impact on readers:

#	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998
1	National Post	National Post	National Post	National Post	Globe and Mail	Toronto Star
2	Globe and Mail	Toronto Star	Toronto Star	Toronto Star	Toronto Star	Globe and Mail
3	Toronto Star	Globe and Mail	Globe and Mail	Globe and Mail	La Presse	Montreal Gazette
4	Ottawa Citizen	Ottawa Citizen	Montreal Gazette	Ottawa Citizen	Montreal Gazette	Ottawa Citizen
5	Montreal Gazette	Montreal Gazette	Ottawa Citizen	Montreal Gazette	National Post	Toronto Sun
6	La Presse	La Presse	Chronicle Herald	La Presse	Ottawa Citizen	-
7	-	Winnipeg Free Press	La Presse	-	-	-

Notes

1. The Toronto Sun was monitored in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 but not ranked.

2. The Journal de Montreal was monitored in 2001 but not ranked.

3. The Chronicle Herald was monitored and ranked only in 2001.

4. The Winnipeg Free Press was monitored in 2002 and 2003 but ranked only in 2002.

10. 2003 VS 2001 Ranking

Without Circulation Factor

Rank	Year 2001		Year 2002		Year 2003
Rank	Newspaper	Normalized Points	Newspaper	Normalized Points	Newspaper	Normalized Points
1	National Post	100	National Post	100	National Post	100
2	Montreal Gazette	69	Ottawa Citizen	91	Globe and Mail	36
3	Ottawa Citizen	62	Montreal Gazette	87	Ottawa Citizen	22
4	Globe and Mail	58	La Presse	76	Toronto Star	18
5	Chronicle Herald	56	Toronto Star	61	Montreal Gazette	11
6	La Presse	50	Globe and Mail	60	La Presse	10
7	Toronto Star	41	Winnipeg Free Press	59	-	-

Notes

1. The National Post is ranked the highest in its use of anti-Islam language in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

2. The difference in points between the first ranked newspaper and the seventh is lower in 2002 than 2001; 41 points in 2002 compared to 59 points in 2001.

3. No significant difference between the last three newspapers in 2002.

4. The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest circulation newspaper became worse in 2002 by 20 points.

5. The Globe and Mail became worse in 2002 by two points, the Ottawa Citizen by 29 points and the Montreal Gazette by 18 points.

6. La Presse, the only French daily included in the study, became worse by 16 points in 2002.

7. The total number of points has increased 4.8 times (380%) from the pre-9/11 year to the post-9/11 year; from an average of 670 points per newspaper per month to an average of 3,232 per newspaper per month.

Anti-Islam in the Media, Examples

Newspaper: The National Post

(May 1 – July 31, 2003)

(1)
Date:		Thursday May 1, 2003
Title:		Suicide bomber, accomplice held British passports
Page:		A20
Source:		Dan Williams - Reuters
Terminology:		Islamic terrorist

(2)
Date:		Friday May 2, 2003
Title:		Don’t flinch from occupying Iraq
Page:		A14
Source:		Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group
Terminology:		Shiite extremists, Shiite fundamentalists

(3)
Date:		Saturday May 3, 2003
Title:		Restive Shiites look to fill power vacuum
Page:		A11
Source:		Marina Jimenez
Terminology:		Islamist fundamentalist

(4)
Date:		Saturday May 3, 2003
Title:		Will Osama become the retiring sort?
Page:		23
Source:		Gerald Owen
Terminology:		Islamic terrorism

(5)
Date:		Monday May 5, 2003
Title:		U.S. hands Damascus its last warning
Page:		A1-A11
Source:		Scott Stinson
Terminology:		Islamic terrorist

(6)
Date:		Monday May 5, 2003
Title:		A roadblock to Mideast peace
Page:		17
Source:		Neil Lochery
Terminology:		radical Muslim groups, radical Muslims, British radical Muslims

(7)
Date:		Tuesday May 6, 2003
Title:		Pop star raises Indonesian anger
Page:		A3
Source:		Araminta Wordsworth, NP with files from The Associated Press
Terminology:		Islamic extremism

(8)
Date:		Tuesday May 6, 2003
Title:		The choice between oil and extremism
Page:		A18
Source:		Thomas S. Axworthy
Terminology:		Wahhabi religious extremism, Wahhabi extremism, harsh doctrine of Wahhabism

(9)
Date:		Friday May 9, 2003
Title:		Request for Ottawa’s help raises a conundrum
Page:		A1 / A4
Source:		Stewart Bell
Terminology:		radical Muslim

(10)
Date:		Friday May 9, 2003
Title:		Saudis hunt St. Catharines bomb suspect
Page:		A4
Source:		Stewart Bell
Terminology:		Islamic fundamentalism, radical Islam

(11)
Date:		Saturday May 10, 2003
Title:		Mystery surrounds fate of 31 tourists missing in Sahara
Page:		A14
Source:		Isabel Vincent
Terminology:		Islamic fighters, militant Islamic

(12)
Date:		Saturday May 10, 2003
Title:		Slayings of alcohol sellers spark new fears
Page:		A16
Source:		Kate Connolly – The Daily Telegraph
Terminology:		Islamic fundamentalists

(13)
Date:		Wednesday May 14, 2003
Title:		Saudi Arabia reaps what it has sowed
Page:		A17
Source:
Terminology:		Islamic terrorism

(14)
Date:		Thursday May 15, 2003
Title:		Saudis failed to react to threat: U.S.
Page:		A13
Source:		Toby Harnden - The Daily Telegraph with files from news services
Terminology:		Islamic terrorists, Islamist militancy

(15)
Date:		Thursday May 15, 2003
Title:		Algerian army frees tourists held in Sahara
Page:		A15
Source:		Isambard Wilkinson in Madrid and Michael Leidig in Vienna – The Daily Telegraph with files from Reuters
Terminology:		Islamic terrorist groups

(16)
Date:		Friday May 16, 2003
Title:		Al-Qaeda suspect sets off Kenya alert
Page:		A12
Source:		Robin Gedye – The Daily Telegraph with files from Reuters
Terminology:		Islamic militant prisoners

(17)
Date:		Friday May 16, 2003
Title:		Stop tip-toeing around Saudi reality
Page:		A18
Source:		Stephen Schwartz – The Wall Street Journal
Terminology:		American Muslim extremist

(18)
Date:		Saturday May 17, 2003
Title:		‘We know that no U.S. government facility was hit’
Page:		A1 / A10
Source:		Gilles Trequesser and Adam Entous – Reuters
Terminology:		Islamic fundamentalist movement, radical Islamists, radical Muslim group

(19)
Date:		Saturday May 17, 2003
Title:		The spy behind the burqa
Page:		A22
Source:		Stewart Bell
Terminology:		radical Islamic groups, Islamic terror network, Islamic extremists, Militant Islam, radical Islamists, radical Muslims, Islamic terrorism

(20)
Date:		Tuesday May 20, 2003
Title:		U.S. troups to help battle Muslim rebels in Philippines
Page:		A12
Source:
Terminology:		Muslim rebels

(21)
Date:		Tuesday May 20, 2003
Title:		Seven killed, 24 wounded as factions clash in refugee camp
Page:		A13
Source:
Terminology:		Islamists, Islamists

(22)
Date:		Tuesday May 20, 2003
Title:		One war, one enemy
Page:		A17
Source:
Terminology:		radical Islamism, fundamentalist Islam

(23)
Date:		Wednesday May 21, 2003
Title:		Carrots don’t work in the Mideast
Page:		A18
Source:		David Warren – Ottawa Citizen
Terminology:		Islamist radicals

(24)
Date:		Thursday May 22, 2003
Title:		Montrealer arrested ... / Arrest latest al-Qaeda link ...
Page:		A1 / A3
Source:		Stewart Bell
Terminology:		radical Islamic cell

(25)
Date:		Saturday May 24, 2003
Title:		Jews are the victims. Abbas is the target
Page:		A25
Source:		Neill Lochery
Terminology:		radical Islamic group, Islamic groups

(26)
Date:		Monday May 25, 2003
Title:		Moving toward recognition ... / Proviso a bump ...
Page:		A1 / A9
Source:		Karin Laub – The Associated Press with files from Reuters and Agence France-Presse
Terminology:		Islamic militant

(27)
Date:		Thursday May 29, 2003
Title:		Five suspects detained in Saudi attack
Page:		A12
Source:		Faud Al-Frayyan and Abbas Salman – Reuters with files from the New York Times and The Associated Press
Terminology:		radical Islamists

(28)
Date:		Thursday May 29, 2003
Title:		Cleric’s trial hears from admitted terrorists
Page:		A12
Source:		Telly Nathalia - Reuters, with files from Agence France-Presse
Terminology:		Islamic radicalism

(29)
Date:		Thursday May 29, 2003
Title:		Military chief dismisses rebel’s ceasefire as ‘tactical move’
Page:		A15
Source:
Terminology:		Muslim rebels

(30)
Date:		Friday May 30, 2003
Title:		War was not about WMDs: Wolfowitz
Page:		A11
Source:		Jan Cienski
Terminology:		Islamic fundamentalists

(31)
Date:		Friday, May 30, 2003
Title:		Abbas offers ceasefire with Hamas
Page:		A12
Source:		Joel Brinkley – The New York Times
Terminology:		militant Islamic

(32)
Date:		Saturday May 31, 2003
Title:		FBI told terror suspect he was wanted
Page:		A10
Source:		Graeme Hamilton
Terminology:		Muslim holy war combatant, Islamic terrorists

(33)
Date:		Monday June 2, 2003
Title:		Will America stay in the ‘arc of crisis’?
Page:		A14
Source:		Amir Taheri
Terminology:		Islamist, military-Islamist, Islamists

(34)
Date:		Tuesday June 3, 2003
Title:		Terror Web site sells Canadian firearms
Page:		A5
Source:		Stewart Bell
Terminology:		Muslim extremist groups

(35)
Date:		Tuesday June 3, 2003
Title:		Iraqi frustration is proving explosive
Page:		A11
Source:		Peter Goodspeed
Terminology:		Islamic radicals

(36)
Date:		Tuesday June 3, 2003
Title:		Pakistani province adopts Islamic law
Page:		A12
Source:		Juliette Terzieff
Terminology:		Islamic hard-liners, Islamic hard-liners

(37)
Date:		Wednesday June 4, 2003
Title:		CSIS intervened in Ottawa’s decision ...
Page:		A2
Source:		Stewart Bell
Terminology:		Islamic militant, Islamic terrorist group

(38)
Date:		Thursday June 5, 2003
Title:		Terrorists vow ‘never to lay down arms’
Page:		A15
Source:		Nidal Al-Mughrabi – Reuters
Terminology:		Islamic terror

(39)
Date:		Thursday June 5, 2003
Title:		Iraq was easy, but the war continues
Page:		A18
Source:		John Keegan – The Daily Telegraph
Terminology:		militant Islamic fundamentalists

(40)
Date:		Friday June 6, 2003
Title:		Terrorism is our top concern: CSIS
Page:		A4
Source:		Stewart Bell
Terminology:		Islamic holy warriors, Islamic terrorist, Islamic extremism, radical Muslims

MEDIA COMMUNIQUÉ

1. WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT CIC’S MEDIA RESEARCH PROJECT

2. INTRODUCTION

3. Anti-Islam in Canadian media feeds ‘Image Distortion Disorder’

4. AN ANTI-ISLAM GLOSSARY.. as used by Canadian Newspapers

5. AN ANTI-ISLAM GLOSSARY.. as used by Canadian Newspapers

1. WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY
ABOUT CIC’S MEDIA RESEARCH PROJECT

3. Anti-Islam in Canadian media feeds
‘Image Distortion Disorder’