• DOI:10.1177/0196859906290919
Corpus ID: 143612009

“Fatwa on the Bunny”

@article{Vultee2006FatwaOT,
  title={“Fatwa on the Bunny”},
  author={Fred Vultee},
  journal={Journal of Communication Inquiry},
  year={2006},
  volume={30},
  pages={319 - 336}
}

Fred Vultee

Published 2006

Sociology

Journal of Communication Inquiry

How did fatwa, once an unambiguous, simple term for a ruling on a question of Islamic religious law, come to mean “death sentence” in U.S. news language and popular culture? This article uses content and discourse analyses to trace this newly created meaning through a series of gatekeeping failures to a position from which its more ominous meaning is easily inferred—not simply in references to political violence but in discussions of baseball and literature or in advertisements featuring the… CONTINUE READING

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