Islamophobia traps Muslims between state-sponsored and popular violence

Evidence

This book presents this narrative of global Islamophobia at the delta of crusades old and new, homing in on the center of their stages of violence and examining the margins even more closely. Most fundamentally, this books centers on the voices of the victims locked between the violent crucibles of state-sponsored and popular Islamophobia—those perilous middles where Muslims are forced to live, and in the words of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, strive to “live free, or die like the trees, standing up.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 61

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the central framing: a twofold Islamophobia (state-sponsored + popular) whose victims occupy the perilous middle — the book’s organizing definitional scheme.
• XREF: connects to: State-sponsored violence channels a resentful hatred of living bodies; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”