Liberal security hysteria functionally powered the right-wing mosque campaign’s success

Evidence

This success, however, was in no small part due to the role played by the liberal establishment. 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, 659

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the MOC’s ‘why every fix fails’ thread — liberal participation in the enemy frame, not just right-wing racism, is what powers it. — connects to: Liberal security politics amplified right-wing Islamophobia’s reach and power; Liberal homegrown-terror hysteria amplified right-wing Islamophobia — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 671; Homegrown-terror hysteria in liberal media enabled the Ground Zero mosque campaign — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 671 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Liberal security politics amplified right-wing Islamophobia’s reach and power #corroborates (0.95)
• Liberal security politics amplified right-wing Islamophobia against the NYC Islamic center #exemplifies (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 659
• Liberal homegrown-terror hysteria amplified right-wing Islamophobia #corroborates (0.92) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 671
• Homegrown-terror hysteria in liberal media enabled the Ground Zero mosque campaign #exemplifies (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 671
• Liberal Islamophobia legitimizes and amplifies right-wing anti-Muslim conspiracy theories #corroborates (0.90)
• Liberal defenses of Muslims feed rather than block right-wing conspiracy theories #expands (0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 733
• Liberal framing of the good-bad Muslim divide enables right-wing conspiracy theories #expands (0.80)
• Anti-Islam rhetoric gained legitimacy by wrapping itself in liberal values. #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 316
• Islam-as-violence framing migrated from the right into mainstream liberal media #qualifies (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 346