Public Islamic ritual functioned as a geopolitical counterblow to Islamophobic governance

Evidence

As her country stood silent and the whole world was watching a week after the terror attacks, the call to prayer reverberated as a decisive blow to the politics of Islamophobia gripping governments across the globe. This was not political gameswomanship or being swallowed by the tide of woke performative dogma. It was personal. Fifty-one New Zealanders, fifty-one of Ardern’s citizens, were murdered only miles away from where she donned the hijab so gracefully, quoted the prophet so eloquently, and listened to the Islamic prayer so honorably. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1042

Categorization

• SEED: The adhan broadcast as state-sanctioned counter-politics is a strong case study contrast to calls-to-prayer restrictions Beydoun lists elsewhere; an essay comparing Ardern’s adhan to the Swiss minaret ban would pair well.