Islamophobia remained a hate unnamed in Said’s later years.

Evidence

That “everything of consequence either had happened or would happen in the West” was a great lie of the past, Said revealed. That pushed me to search for that truth, then fight for it, wherever that hate that still did not claim its name, Islamophobia, sprouted from the earth. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 309

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Beydoun emphasizes the delayed naming of Islamophobia as a category — worth chasing the history of when and how the term became accepted.
  • XREF: connects to: Said already linked antisemitism and Islamophobia in 1978 — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 693
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Said already linked antisemitism and Islamophobia in 1978 — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 693

Broader Connections