Islamophobia’s impacts fall hardest on marginal and multiply-vulnerable victims

Evidence

Khaled elevates the voices and experiences of the victims of Islamophobia; he reveals the stunning heterogeneity of how Islamophobia is imposed and experienced. Repeatedly, his eye turns toward the furthest margins and to the most vulnerable intersections that many of his contemporaries neglect: the Somali widow blinded by a relentless sun and forced to live between CIA surveillance and local terror groups, the young Rohingya widow swept from the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar to poverty in Chicago, or the dynamic Uyghur activist in Turkey who champions the cause of his people although each word he utters, every post he publishes, may endanger his family members in China. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 25

Categorization

• XREF: Crenshaw’s own intersectionality framework applied to global Islamophobia — the theoretical throughline for the reader’s global-synthesis reading.