"I think Islam hates us" : En innehålls- och narrativanalys av Donald Trumps porträttering av islam

Sammanfattning: The rightwing-populist movement has gained momentum in recent years throughout the western world. The recent spike of organized Islamic terror organization has been one of the root causes of the spark about the debate of what western culture actually is, which has resulted in a gain for the rightwing-populist movement and a normalization of populist Islamophobic rhetoric. This bachelor theses focuses on the portrayal of Islam by the US president, Donald J. Trump. The purpose of the study was to analyze how Donald Trump portrays Islam in some interviews and speeches and try to pinpoint in his rhetoric reasoning how he interprets Islam in the American context. To fulfill this purpose four different forms of speeches has been analyzed. The nature of the speeches is either a type of interview or where Trump talks as a lone speaker. The study aimed to offer an answer to how Islam becomes a politized phenomenon and to determine the narrative in Trumps statements and thereafter use that narrative to offer a perspective on the incitement of the established narrative. Therefore, to answer the question about the politization of Islam the study has worked with Jonas Lindbergs (2017) Religion in Nordic politics as a means to societal cohesion and Carolina Ivanescus (2010) Politicised religion and the religionisation of politics. Rogers Brubakers (2017) Between nationalism and civilzationism was used to offer a perspective on the incitement to Trumps reasoning that orientates around right-wing populist understanding of Western cultural values. Thus, were these theories the theoretical framework to this essays study. The methods used for the study was content analysis and narrative analysis. The narrative analysis, as explained was used to establish the narrative in Trumps statements while the content analysis was used a method to systematize the empiricism and to facilitate the process of coding of the material. The conclusion of the study is that Donald Trump uses Islam as a depicted threat to the American people and the American culture. Islam takes aim on majority group in America and threatens to implement new normative understandings that emerges from Islamic doctrine. The Christian identification of the American people is threatened and the secular spirit as well that is in impregnated in the American culture. In Trumps understanding the threat has reached a breaking point where he, as the leader of the country, is the sole solution to this dictated problem.