Islamophobia is a state-driven dialectic shaping popular attitudes toward Muslims

Evidence

29. “Islamophobia is also a systematic, fluid, and deeply politicized dialectic between the state and its polity: a dialectic whereby the former shapes, reshapes, and confirms popular views or attitudes about Islam and Muslim subjects inside and outside of American borders.” Khaled A. Beydoun, “Islamophobia: Toward a Legal Definition and Framework,” Columbia Law Review Online 16 (2015): 119. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1807

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The state-shapes-populace dialectic is the causal core of the global-synthesis argument — states don’t just reflect but produce Islamophobic attitudes.
• DEFINE: Provides the operative definition of Islamophobia the whole book runs on.
• XREF: connects to: Elite-driven Islamophobia faces countervailing mass movements that can redirect public opinion.; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”