Ending Islamophobia requires dismantling the war-on-terror security state
Evidence
In this book we have journeyed from the seventh century to the twenty-first and found that the relationship between the “East” and “West” has not been characterized by a transhistoric “clash of civilizations.” We also saw that the image of the menacing “Muslim threat” has been mobilized largely by ruling elites to serve a political agenda, whether the domination of Europe by the papacy in the eleventh century or US expansionism today. An external enemy is usually paired with an internal one against whom palpable fear and hatred are generated. It follows that Islamophobia is about politics and not religion; it is therefore in the realm of politics that Islamophobia must be fought. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 576 (
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In its civilizational bluster, “Old Europe”–type criticisms of dissent abroad, and persistent disregard for the negative consequences of U.S. meddling, Terror and Liberalism is a pitch-perfect document of the liberal case for the war on terror. Although the book stakes a claim as an explanatory metanarrative for modern history, it was less than prescient about how the Bush doctrine—with its disregard for fundamental rights and freedoms—paved the way for renewed U.S. exceptionalism, paranoia, race thinking, and Islamophobia in the years after it was published. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 123 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Ending anti-Muslim racism requires dismantling the national security state and class power. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 766; Anti-Muslim racism is systemic, not fringe, and requires dismantling the national security state — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 766; Denouncing ISIS without denouncing US violence legitimizes the war on terror (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Interrogating Western-ness is required to expunge Islamophobia
#expands(1.00) - Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance
#expands(1.00) - State law enforcement of the presumption that Muslims tie to terrorism constitutes structural Islamophobia
#expands(1.00) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 337 - State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia
#expands(1.00) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136 - Structural Islamophobia institutionalizes the presumption that Muslim identity threatens national security
#expands(1.00) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1258 - The liberal case for the war on terror abetted later Islamophobia
#expands(1.00) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 123 - The War on Terror functions as an imperial project spreading Islamophobia globally
#expands(1.00) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 43 - Islamophobia is political rather than religious and must be fought politically
#expands(1.00) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 576 - State counter-terrorism focus has fostered and furthered Islamophobia in the UK
#expands(1.00) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 384