Legal academia offers a platform to expose how law constructs Islamophobia as natural

Evidence

In all of this, I learned that Khaled was a fighter, unafraid to stand his ground and fully commit to the battle at hand. By then, it was a foregone conclusion that his ideas had to be heard in a world that marked Muslims as the enemy. And while there were many ways for Khaled to amplify his voice, a career in legal academia offered a unique platform to uncover the multiple ways that Islamophobia—under construction by law—could be understood as natural and even essential. This kind of aggression in the name of self-defense is not new to the US or elsewhere worldwide. Still, Khaled has adapted this dynamic to the particulars of the War on Terror to create usable knowledge in the pursuit of freedom. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 22

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the core frame that Islamophobia is ‘under construction by law’ — the book’s theoretical engine.