Islam replaced communism as the U.S. constructed menace

Evidence

With the demise of communism and rise of international competition in the global order, Islam has emerged as the new menace, and the U.S. is focused on solving the problem via the War on Terror. Islamic peril is grounded in the history of American Orientalism that has placed the Muslim world in opposition to U.S. nationalism. Political diplomacy, popular culture, and the media construct the threats and dangers of Muslims in relation to other prominent constructed perils and menaces of the U.S. (Little 2002; McAlister 2005). — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 302

Categorization

• XREF: Thesis continuity: ‘Islamic peril’ is a direct successor to ‘yellow peril’ — a rhetorical lineage the reader can build an article around. — connects to: Neoliberal theorists conflated communism with Islam as an orientalist enemy. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 125; The Cold War’s end positioned Islam as communism’s replacement global threat — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 240; During the early Cold War, Islam was coded positively in US discourse — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 392 (+6 more)
• SEED: Angle: the interchangeable ‘peril’ template in US history — yellow, red, Islamic — as a single repeating racial-panic structure.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 302