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This chapter aims to investigate the underlying media drivers of Islamophobia in North America by focusing on how Islam and Muslims in North America are viewed through western media. Muslim communities in North America have been targeted and marginalized by mediated Islamophobia. The involvement of Islamophobes across media outlets and platforms has allowed them to effectively promote their agenda nationally and internationally. Using the Internet and media outlets within the market dynamics of supply and demand, Islamophobes have been able to entice and recruit people to their ranks in a vocal and accelerated fashion. Three core media drivers of Islamophobia include far-right conservative ideologies, media bias, and mediated politicization of Islamophobia, including the rhetoric of patriotism. Media Islamophobes, far-right conservatives, and white supremacists are the foremost promoters and drivers of Islamophobia in North America.
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