A single fatal hate crime exposed Islamophobia’s entanglement with other agendas.

Evidence

The murder of Shaima Alawadi in March 2012 was one such event in which the fault lines were drawn by a range of actors and pundits, reflecting the complex embeddedness of gendered Islamophobia in broader issues of politics, culture, and religion. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 567