Modern Islamophobia began with 1990s sole-superpower America as an ideological tool

Evidence

In similar vein, Stephen Sheehi has argued that Islamophobia is the term used to describe what is actually an “ideological campaign against Muslims.” Sheehi dates modern Islamophobia very particularly to that moment in the 1990s when America became the sole world superpower, with the will and means to impose its political and economic model on the rest of the world. For him, “Islamophobia is the latest ideological construct deployed to facilitate American power.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 39

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasting Kumar’s episodic-construction model with Sheehi’s precise 1990s dating gives the reader a timeline tool for positioning when specific novels intervened.
• XREF: connects to: Islamophobia networks are structurally integral to US empire — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 89; Weak states, subempires, and European far-right parties all weaponize Islamophobia independent of US empire — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 91; Modern Islamophobia dates to post-Cold-War American global dominance. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 39 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Islamophobia networks are structurally integral to US empire — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 89; Weak states, subempires, and European far-right parties all weaponize Islamophobia independent of US empire — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 91; Modern Islamophobia dates to post-Cold-War American global dominance. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 39 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern Islamophobia dates to post-Cold-War American global dominance. #corroborates (0.95) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 39
• American Islamophobia predates modern politics, rooted in mythologies of white utopia #complicates (0.80) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 575
• Islamophobia predates Trump by centuries as a state-backed system #complicates (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 79
• Islamophobia predates its modern name as a racial logic #complicates (0.73)
• European colonial racial practice of differentiating Islam preceded and enabled modern Islamophobia #complicates (0.72)