Liberal homegrown-terror hysteria amplified right-wing Islamophobia

Evidence

In the months prior, the media had whipped up hysteria around the threat of “homegrown terrorism.” This green scare was integral to Obama’s announcement to deploy 33,000 more troops to Afghanistan. In short, even though the right-wing Islamophobia network had been active for a few decades, the climate created by official liberalism in the form of support for more security measures to ferret out the “terrorists” in our midst bolstered their ability to take the argument further. Liberal Islamophobia interacts dialectically with conservative and Far Right Islamophobia to produce the “Muslim” as a threatening race. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 671

Categorization

• XREF: Core mechanism for the reader’s dialectic thread: liberal and right-wing Islamophobia interact dialectically, relevant to testing whether the loop is content-agnostic or capitalism/empire-specific. — connects to: Islamophobia spans liberal and conservative mainstreams, not just the fringe right — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 91; Islam-as-violence framing migrated from the right into mainstream liberal media — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 346; Liberal security hysteria functionally powered the right-wing mosque campaign’s success — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 659 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Homegrown terrorism hysteria enabled far-right Islamophobes to seize the national debate. #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 511
• Liberal security politics amplified right-wing Islamophobia’s reach and power #corroborates (0.78)
• Liberal Islamophobia legitimizes and amplifies right-wing anti-Muslim conspiracy theories #corroborates (0.76)
• Liberal defenses of Muslims feed rather than block right-wing conspiracy theories #responds-to (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 733