Liberal security politics amplified right-wing Islamophobia against the NYC Islamic center

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 corroborates the vault’s Islamophobia-as-imperial-policy claim — namus (Aziz), racialized securitization (Razack). This is a precise mechanism passage dividing labor between liberal ‘green scare’ and right-wing network. — connects to: Liberal security hysteria functionally powered the right-wing mosque campaign’s success — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 659; Liberal retreat in the Cordoba House fight doubled the right-wing anti-Muslim base; Liberal security politics amplified right-wing Islamophobia’s reach and power (+11 more)
• QUESTION: The green scare connection to Obama’s Afghanistan surge is a specific causal link worth chasing — what evidence grounds ‘integral to’?

Broader Connections

• Liberal security politics amplified right-wing Islamophobia’s reach and power #expands (0.95)
• Liberal homegrown-terror hysteria amplified right-wing Islamophobia #expands (0.92) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 671
• The liberal case for the war on terror abetted later Islamophobia #expands (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 123
• Liberal defenses of Muslims feed rather than block right-wing conspiracy theories #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 733
• Liberal framing of the good-bad Muslim divide enables right-wing conspiracy theories #expands (0.82)
• Liberal Islamophobia legitimizes and amplifies right-wing anti-Muslim conspiracy theories #qualifies (0.80)
• Official counterterrorism policy creates the terrain from which far-right Islamophobia grows #corroborates (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 737
• Grassroots counter-mobilization partially defeated the Islamophobia network in the mosque fight #qualifies (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 676
• Liberal containment of Islamophobia serves counterinsurgency strategy, not tolerance #qualifies (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 574