Islamophobic power can deploy oppositional tactics to advance Muslim marginalization

Evidence

Islamophobia was not merely an appeal for votes, but a resonant message that would drive policy and inform immigration and national security policing. … In exchange, he delivered on his explicit and “dog whistle” campaign messaging by generating real Islamophobic policies, programs, and action. Trump, like many candidates before him and others who will follow, traded a grand narrative of nativism and hate for votes—which registered to great success at the ballot box. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 57 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

For instance, when Florida pastor Terry Jones threatened to burn the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Obama administration had to rein him in. This had less to do with Obama’s commitment to fighting Islamophobia and more to do with his administration’s emphasis on winning hearts and minds in the “Muslim world.” After reinforcing the notion that the United States was a nation built on religious tolerance, Obama said of Jones, in a television interview, that “I just want him to understand that this stunt that he is pulling could greatly endanger our young men and women in uniform who are in Iraq, who are in Afghanistan.” The turn to counterinsurgency meant that obvious provocations of this kind had to be managed even while the logic of empire was reinforced. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 574 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Populism can be mobilized either against or in service of the power bloc; Prominent Islamophobes like Pamela Gellar, Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, Steven Emerson, and Frank Gaffney, as well as others, portray jihad as Muslims’ attempt to force non-Muslims to convert to Islam and eradicate those who refuse. They establish non-governmental organizations and carry out campaigns dedicated to the portrayal of Islam as a violent religion and use their own interpretation of jihad as proof.; Explicit Islamophobia has become an effective electoral strategy — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 508 (+22 more)

Related

• Explicit Islamophobia has become an effective electoral strategy (similarity 0.85)
• Liberal containment of Islamophobia serves counterinsurgency strategy, not tolerance (similarity 0.85)
• Anti-Muhammad tropes were repurposed to attack domestic political figures (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobic campaign rhetoric is traded for votes and converted into policy (similarity 0.85)
• Counter-jihad campaigns have spread across Western countries and infected mainstream politics. (similarity 0.85)
• War on Terror Islamophobia empowered populist demagogues to seize power against Muslims (similarity 0.84)
• Trump marked a new phase where rhetorical Islamophobia aligned openly with policy (similarity 0.83)
• Obama’s counter-radicalization strategy turned Muslim communities into informants (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Muslim racialization is bipartisan and flourished under the Obama administration (similarity 0.83)
• Domestic anti-Muslim campaigns needed liberal commentary to reach the mainstream (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim mobilizations form a transnational movement with distinct ideology and policy reach. (similarity 0.82)
• Trump’s campaign statement ‘I think Islam hates us’ and his proposed total shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. constitute vitriolic anti-Muslim rhetoric foregrounded by an unprecedentedly… (similarity 0.82)
• Official counterterrorism policy creates the terrain from which far-right Islamophobia grows (similarity 0.81)
• Right-wing politicians stoked a clash-of-civilizations narrative that globally increased Islamophobia. (similarity 0.81)
• Far-right leaders exploit media-built Islamophobic climate to gain power (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Liberal containment of Islamophobia serves counterinsurgency strategy, not tolerance #corroborates (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 574
• Support of Muslims during crises doubles as repressive behavioral control of them #corroborates (0.70)
• Islamophobic campaign rhetoric is traded for votes and converted into policy #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 57
• Divide-and-conquer foreign policy tactics moved into domestic Muslim communities via CVE #exemplifies (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 409
• Explicit Islamophobia has become an effective electoral strategy #corroborates (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 508
• Right-wing Islamophobes are structurally embedded rather than marginal figures #corroborates (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 34
• Elites mobilized Islamophobia to advance their political agendas across centuries #corroborates (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 98
• War on Terror Islamophobia empowered populist demagogues to seize power against Muslims #corroborates (0.60)
• Islamophobic fringe politicians have become mainstream coalition power-brokers #corroborates (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 519
• Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims. #corroborates (0.60)
• Anti-Muslim crisis periods simultaneously empower and marginalize Arab American communities #corroborates (0.55)
• Islamophobic crisis produces simultaneous mainstreaming and marginalization of Arab American communities #corroborates (0.55)
• Centrist moves against Muslims can legitimize far-right parties rather than weaken them #corroborates (0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 494
• Islamophobic provocation aims to elicit rage that confirms Muslim stereotypes #exemplifies (0.55)
• Structural utility, not ignorance, sustains Muslim racialization. #corroborates (0.55)