In what ways are Islam and Muslims represented in the British Christian media? How do such representations contribute to the (mis)recognition of Islam and Muslims? This book responds to these questions by discursively exploring various discourses in the British Christian news media that lead to the representations of Islam and Muslim, from the perspective of the political theory of recognition. This is indicated by the amount of documents and also the qualitative representations that focus on the discourses of interfaith dialogue, Islamic terrorism, Christian persecution and British Muslims. These discourses suggest that the representations of Islam and Muslims take multiple forms. Such multiple forms indicate how complex cultural and religious encounter is, and how complex the British Christian news media representations of Islam and Muslims are. Analysis presented in this book shows that the representations of Islam and Muslims follow three scenarios. Firstly, by appealing to the sameness, an equivalential identity is created by weakening internal differences, while articulating the equivalent elements in the relationships between Islam and Christianity. Secondly, by absolutising the boundaries, differences become non-negotiable boundary markings through which Islam and Muslims are represented as a ‘total other’. Thirdly, the production of ‘another other’ occurs when the ‘near other’ is represented by narrowing the boundaries, following the argument that engaging in dialogue with Islam is a falsification of Christianity. Consequently, those who take the road of dialogue are represented as ‘another other’.

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