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This article discusses the Danish media setting and framing of Muslims and Islam exploring the role of the Danish media in the construction of the public discourse on Muslims in Denmark. The article is based on the main findings of a two-month monitoring of four Danish newspapers between mid-October and mid-December 2011. In the study we find, that a relatively large share of the items concerning Muslims and Islam are negatively framed and restricted to certain topics such as religious extremism, sharia and terror, and that the reporting is rather one-sided and exclusive of minority voices hereby contributing to a stereotypical and distorted presentation of Muslims and Islam. Therefore we argue, that the Danish media discourse contributes to the construction of a negative public discourse on Muslims and Islam, and at the same time serve to legitimize and normalize subtle racist and discriminatory attitudes towards Muslims.Danske mediers søgelys har inden for det seneste årti i stigende grad vaeret rettet mod muslimer og islam. Den Europaeiske Kommission mod Racisme og Intolerance (ECRI) har ved flere lejligheder fremhaevet de danske mediers negative fremstilling af etniske minoriteter (ECRI 1999(ECRI , 2001(ECRI , 2006, og i flere internationale studier rangerer de danske medier, som de mest kritiske over for muslimer (Word Economic Forum 2008).Imidlertid har flere af de eksisterende undersøgelser en del år på bagen, hvorfor naervaerende artikel har til formål at undersøge, hvordan muslimer og islam er fremstillet i nutidens danske mediebillede, for herefter at diskutere hvilken betydning denne fremstilling kan have for den offentlige debat omhandlende muslimer og islam i Danmark?