Most anti islamophobic arguments resort to the idea that Islam is being used as a way of escaping from western society’s problems, that it is being demonized so the West can blame it for everything. In “Covering Islam” we can see during the text how Edward W. Said completely supports this point of view but, what is more important, also how he tries to convince his lectors to think the same. We can generally say that the author is using a loaded language, since his aim is to persuade the reader, to make him comprehend how the West, and specially USA, is playing with the image of Islam to accomplish their own interests. Therefore, on account of this language style, one of the most used techniques in the text is giving opinions which, as the following example in page xv, sometimes are even stated as if they were facts: “Yet there is a consensus on “Islam” as a kind of scapegoat for everything we do not happen to like about the world’s new political, social, and economic patterns.” Similar to opinions we have generalisations, which simplify the argument and give us a wide prototype that covers more elements and, as a result, helps the author to sound more convincing. For instance, in the page xii: “With approximately three hundred reporters in Teheran during the first days of the hostage crisis, and without a Persian-speaker among them, it was no wonder that all the media reports coming out of Iran repeated essentially the same threadbare accounts of what was taking place;…” Another linguistic device used is the counter argument, for example in the page xi: “ Superficially, phrases like that have a certain plausibility, but in fact I think hey re used to cover a great deal of what the reporter knows nothing about.” However, what makes the text credible, influential and strong are the facts given to support the author’s points. Such as: “On January 20, 1981, the fifty-two Americans held prisoner in the United States Embassy for 4444 days finally left Iran. A few days later they arrived in the United States to be greeted by the country’s genuine happiness in seeing them back.” on page xx, which Said uses to emphasize his consideration of the fact that people take each event related to Muslims into its extreme. Finally the use of rhetorical questions on page xv: “Is there such a thing as Islamic behaviour? … and Indonesia?” and on page xxv: “Is “Islam” going to be confined to the role of terroristic oil-supplier? Are journals… and peaceful development?” try to raise the awareness of, in author’s opinion, the senseless situation towards the perception of Islam. To sum up, we can conclude that the author uses a wide range of techniques that help a lot the effect on the reader he wants to achieve. I do not need to look for examples far away, I am actually one.