This article presents um approach of how the press portrays Islam in current media coverage. As the object of the analysis, this study addresses both the discursive representations (Discourse Analysis) and the interconnections with (and from) Islam in Folha de S.Paulo and in O Estado de S.Paulo printed newspapers, based on the material published by the aforementioned on the International Editorial Board during the 15 days before and after the date that commemorated the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attack . The article also covers a brief historical and cultural inventory of the Islam formation, the construction of the Different in history and the Other-Islam concept. The article also observes an approximate depiction of the actions from the Islamic fundamentalists according to the generalizations and simplifications of this particular media, which guides the complex context of Islam as the Other, the Different in current history and denies it fromits cultural assignments of authenticity and otherness.
Islam; Representations; Discourse Analysis; Folha de S.Paulo; Estado de S.Paulo