Islamophobic framing targets Muslims in both New Zealand and the US Midwest

Evidence

These fears followed her, and young Muslims everywhere, as they tried to live as normally as one could after such a massive tragedy. However, Islam had marked Husna as an unwanted “intruder” on “white soil” in New Zealand, and Dunya lived in a concentrated Muslim enclave in the heart of the Midwest that right-winged pundits claim had been “overtaken by Sharia Law.” A place where the internal challenges of being a young Muslim were magnified by the new trials ushered in by Trump, and the acts of terror in New Zealand he inspired. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 890

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the global-synthesis view in Iftikhar’s work—state and pundit Islamophobia operating in tandem across US and Oceanic contexts.