A Muslim media watchdog wrongly labelled coverage of Islamist terror attacks as “Islamophobic”, a report has claimed.
Policy Exchange, a think tank, said that factual news reports of such incidents had been assessed by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) as examples of “Islamophobic, negative” journalism.
Those criticised by the centre, which was originally a Muslim Council of Britain project but is now an independent entity, include the Associated Press, a leading news agency, after it reported on a terror attack in Manchester on New Year’s Eve in December 2018.
