The image of the Muslim as the ‘other’ in Europe has been prevalent and negativelypresented in different media globally. In the presence of a ‘threat’ society, especiallyafter September 11 attacks, the media construction of Muslims contributed to theculture of fear from immigrants. Integrating Muslims in European societies has beenaffected by the general ‘threat’ image of Muslims. Hence, integrating Muslim women inparticular can be challenged by the media construction of veiled Muslim women’svisibility in the society as a challenge to Western modernity and their construction as a‘threat’ to the modern “Western” world. Using the case of the French headscarf ban inFrance in 2004 I examine mediatized identity construction and how the ‘other’ has beenrepresented in the news media. The case has created a huge debate in the global mediaon women’s right to practice their religion freely within western democracies.The study used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to empirically analyze the Western andArab media coverage of the case examining how was this case constructed in the media,testing which voices are used in the coverage, and if women got the opportunity toexpress their opinion in the media, bringing up in which mode the coverage constructthe headscarf and Islam as a ‘threat’ and when does cosmopolitanism and tolerance popto the surface.