Soumaya Ghannoushi in The propagation of neo-Orientalism argues that a constant stream of war images from Iraq and Afghanistan are re-inforcing an association of Islam with violence and instability. She says:

In a globalised world governed by the power of the image, the question is no longer what has sparked this event or that incident and how it has unfolded on the ground, but how it gets captured by the camera and reported to viewers, listeners, and readers at home.Some might argue, that the media merely reports what is already in existence. However things are not so straightforward in the real world. For the lens is neither neutral nor objective.It is subject to a set of pre-defined choices and calculations that decide what we see and do not see, know and do not know.The media is not a mirror reflecting what is out there. Its role is not simple, passive transmission, but active creation, shaping, and manufacturing, through a lengthy process of selection, filtering, interpretation, and editing.The hidden arms that hold the reins of our media - the giant news corporations and their masters - are not benign charities driven by the love of humanity.

She adds:

These boil down to violence, fanaticism, irrationality, emotiveness, stagnation, subordination, and despotism. They are the pillars of an orthodoxy, which is popularised by the media and bolstered by a complex network of power centres and institutions. To defy it is to place oneself outside the mainstream and within the margins, alongside outsiders, heretics, and truth monsters.

The name for the flow of this kind of images is Islamophobia. So the fear is that a true democratic government in Egypt means support for Islamist terrorism, because our media constantly bombard us citizens with pictures of the terrorist bogeyman.