Volume 4 - Issue 11 (2026-02-20)

A Comprehensive Pragma-discoursal Analytic Structure of Racism in a Media Text Entitled "Terrorists are Always Muslim but Never White: At The Intersection of Critical Race Theory and Propaganda”

Dr: Riyadh Mohsen Huwail

University of Kufa- Iraq

This paper studies and analyses a popular problem that spread globally, viz, ‘'Racism'' through a pragma-discoursal view point in a selected English media text . Racism can be  defined as ''A process by which people are defined according to differences of skin color or other attributes and positioned as different from the majority.'' (Longman Dictionary,2010:479).

The idea that terror is attributed to Muslims became a general negative idea which spread in the United States. Before 9/11 the sad day for America, anyone could say or claim the western world think that Arabs and Muslims are strange, uncivilized, and dangerous people . As a matter of fact Arabs are not necessarily Muslims as the two words are interchangeable terms as , in the America, it is possible to find  most Arabs belong to non- Muslim sects and most Muslims belong to non- Arab sects. In spite of that, terrorists are claimed that they are related  to a radicalized group nowadays  named “Muslims,”  which contains  Muslims these    and  Arabs or Middle Eastern people that are known  as terrorists.

Muslims as the western world presume “inherently violent, alien, and inassimilable.” Therefore Muslims are accused of violence and terror

Thus, Racism thought is based mainly on color, social factors , religious states , and cultural or linguistic  rules  within a society or between societies .