Islamophobia warriors are integral to the establishment, not fringe aberrations

Evidence

The Islamophobia network includes a section of the neocons, Zionist organizations, Christian fundamentalists, and right-wing ex-Muslims from the Middle East and South Asia. A significant number of these new McCarthyites have connections with establishment figures or are themselves from the foreign policy establishment, the military, the CIA, the Department of Defense, or other branches of the security apparatus. … In short, the new McCarthyites aren’t aberrations in an otherwise fair and neutral system, despite their rabidly racist views, but an integral part of it. β€” Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 732

Categorization

  • XREF: Concrete roster of institutional origins β€” neocons, establishment/military/security figures β€” gives the reader empirical personnel detail needed to test whether European domestic-colonial Islamophobes share comparable institutional origins. β€” connects to: Islamophobic warriors are establishment insiders who legitimize overt racism, like McCarthy did; McCarthy-style anti-Muslim warriors emerge from within the establishment, not outside it β€” Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 652; Anti-Muslim extremists function as within-establishment security educators, not fringe outsiders (+4 more)

Broader Connections