Media responsible for negative image of Muslims in Switzerland?

Terror attacks abroad, rightwing policies and a biased media are all reasons why Muslims increasingly seem to have a bad image in Switzerland, a report has found.

 In particular the debate surrounding the national minaret vote of 2009 – in which the building of minarets was banned – was revealed to have had a negative effect.

 The study, part of the Religions, the State and Society programme at the Swiss National Science Foundation, examined the observation that people considered all migrants of Islamic faith collectively as a Muslim minority and labelled them as extremists, even when they were not. More...

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