Anti-Muslim discourse passed from aging Orientalists to liberal podcast stars.

Evidence

Correspondingly, conservative Islamophobia gave way to liberal Islamophobia. This did not, however, change the realities of people’s lives in the “Muslim world,” which in some ways got worse under Obama. This is true, too, of the domestic environment for Muslims in the United States, a topic I turn to in the next chapter. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 436 (#expands, via linked claim)

Islamophobia is no longer a term uttered exclusively by academics in ivory towers, or a word that only comes out the mouths of Muslim American activists and advocates. It has been featured on the Twitter timelines of Jewish and Christian college students, discussed by young politicians rising in response to the hate coming from Trump and those following in his footsteps, and the frequent topic of news headlines and opinion pieces featured in the Washington Post and the New York Times. Islamophobia has fully arrived, as has the consciousness around it and the will to combat it, marshaled on street corners, social media platforms, college and university campuses, in airports, and in public and private spaces in between and beyond. A new crop of Muslim American leaders, the majority of them women, is taking charge of the broader campaign to counter Islamophobia. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 502 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Liberal pundits combined progressive values with vehement anti-Muslim views.; Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims; Liberal Islamophobia under Obama worsened conditions for Muslims at home and abroad — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 436 (+2 more)

Related

• Liberal pundits combined progressive values with vehement anti-Muslim views. (similarity 0.89)
• Liberal Islamophobia under Obama worsened conditions for Muslims at home and abroad (similarity 0.86)
• Domestic anti-Muslim campaigns needed liberal commentary to reach the mainstream (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobia has moved from academic usage into mainstream national discourse. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia spans liberal and conservative mainstreams, not just the fringe right (similarity 0.83)
• The reviewer calls ‘somewhat more provocative, and problematic’ the second half of Kumar’s argument that US Islamophobia is a joint project between conservatives and liberals. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia has been present in Western discourse since the Middle Ages, when negative stereotypes about Muslims helped build support for the Crusades and rationalized European colonial domination. (similarity 0.81)
• Progressive media also contain liberal Islamophobia despite hosting dissenting voices (similarity 0.81)
• Liberal Islamophobia is racist and imperialist despite its gentler rhetoric (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric has been mainstreamed across right-left ideological divides in the US (similarity 0.80)
• Contemporary Islamophobia extends Orientalism’s Sin to all Muslims, not only Arabs. (similarity 0.80)
• Liberal Islamophobia rejects Islam-bashing while enacting policies that target Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• Liberal Muslim-American leaders were co-opted into rebranding imperial policy (similarity 0.80)
• Said’s writings on orientalism capture the demonization of Muslims today, when political figures declare ‘Islam hates us’ and frame Muslims as a domestic problem, placing contemporary anti-Muslim… (similarity 0.80)
• Contemporary Islamophobia extends Orientalist blame onto all Muslims, not just Arabs (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Liberal pundits combined progressive values with vehement anti-Muslim views. #expands (0.85)
• Liberal Islamophobia under Obama worsened conditions for Muslims at home and abroad #expands (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 436
• Islamophobia has moved from academic usage into mainstream national discourse. #complicates (0.45) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 502
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims #qualifies (0.40)