In 2009, Mehdi Hasan in the "New Statesman" criticized Western media for over-reporting a few Islamist terrorist incidents but under-reporting the much larger number of planned non-Islamist terrorist attacks carried out by "non-Irish white folks". A 2012 study indicates that Muslims across different European countries, such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom, experience the highest degree of Islamophobia in the media. Media personalities have been accused of Islamophobia. The obituary in "The Guardian" for the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci described her as "notorious for her Islamaphobia" Obituary of Oriana Fallaci – The Guardian, 16 September 2006. ""Controversial Italian journalist famed for her interviews and war reports but notorious for her Islamaphobia""</ref> The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding published a report in 2018 where they stated, “In terms of print media coverage, Muslim-perceived perpetrators received twice the absolute quantity of media coverage as their non-Muslim counterparts in the cases of violent completed acts. For “foiled” plots, they received seven and half times the media coverage as their counterparts.”