Key Islamophobic organizations trace their lineage to Cold War-era neocons
Evidence
The Orientalists who helped shape this strategy were convinced that the largely secular ideology of nationalism and atheist communism would hold little weight in the “Muslim world.” At a conference organized and sponsored by the government at Princeton University in 1953, Orientalist scholars, policymakers, and various native informants (including Ramadan) concluded that the United States must use religion to win hearts and minds, ignoring the popularity of nationalist movements. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 388 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Neoconservatives campaigned to replace the Soviet enemy with Islamism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 414; The Islamophobia network spans neocons, Zionists, Christian Right, and ex-Muslims; Islam served neocons as a substitute Cold War enemy when the USSR collapsed — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 675 (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- Neocons replaced the Soviet enemy with an Islamic civilizational threat
#expands(0.90) - Neocons needed Islam as a unifying substitute for the USSR enemy
#expands(0.88) - Islamic fundamentalism is a modern product of Cold War politics
#corroborates(0.85) - US cold-war strategy deliberately weaponized religion against nationalism and communism in Muslim regions
#corroborates(0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 388 - Neoconservatives and Israel pushed Islamism as the post-Soviet enemy
#expands(0.85) - Governments’ own Cold War policies helped Islamists dominate Muslim political opposition
#corroborates(0.82) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 313 - Cold War policies that Western powers drove cultivated Islamophobia globally.
#expands(0.82) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 69 - Eisenhower armed Islamist groups against secular nationalists during the Cold War
#expands(0.80) - American Cold War strategy cultivated Islamists against secular nationalism
#corroborates(0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 219 - Modern Islamophobia dates to post-Cold-War American global dominance.
#complicates(0.78) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 39