Islamophobia has moved from academic usage into mainstream national discourse.
Evidence
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
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 502
- XREF: connects to: Islamophobia is defined differently by scholars, spanning fear, media violence, racism, gender, and nationalism.; Islamophobia has become a mainstream civil rights issue framed alongside racism and sexism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 501; European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 480 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream.
#expands(0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 480 - Islamophobia has become the dominant prejudice in Western societies
#expands(0.50) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 15 - The personal homecoming coincided with the national rise of formalized Islamophobia.
#corroborates(0.35) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 536