This thesis examines the dissemination of gendered representations of migrants from the MENA region in Finnish news media between 2018 and 2019. It aims to critically analyse how the news media coverage in Finland reproduces and accentuates gendered Othering and focuses on the Western/ Finnish rhetoric on the Other. I draw on scholarship from Muslim feminist and postcolonial scholars in order to ground the analysis within counter-hegemonic knowledge. The study employs Critical Discourse Analysis to explore both the language and silences within the media discourse. Empirical material includes news articles from major Finnish newspapers relating to male migrant violence, as the Oulu grooming scandal 2018-2019 heightened the rhetoric on male asylum seekers from Muslim-majority countries, and the absence of coverage on Muslim female migrants during the same period. Analysis suggests that Finnish media relies on discursive strategies such as the victim-perpetrator reversal, collectivisation, and cultural essentialism in its portrayal of Muslim men, while largely marginalising and homogenising Muslim women, thus confining them into static roles within religious, traditional family frameworks and as victims and subjects to be saved from it. Male and female migrants are Othered in diverging ways within the media discourse, which is analysed as an arena. The rhetoric examined and portrayals reflect broader Western Orientalist and postcolonial discourses in the sphere of news media. These Orientalist discourses not only shape public perceptions of immigration and the Other but also contribute to creating narratives surrounding migration, security, and national identity, and bolster ideas of Western superiority in contrast to the East.