Science fiction aliens substituted Islam for Communism after Soviet power ended
Evidence
In the 1950s, movies about “aliens” were cautionary tales about the Communist/atheist threat, but with the end of Soviet power, a new danger emerged—Islam. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 686
Categorization
- QUESTION: Which specific post-1989 films and shows allegedly coded Muslims as the new alien enemy? Worth tracing concrete examples.
- XREF: connects to: Islam served neocons as a substitute Cold War enemy when the USSR collapsed — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 675; The Islamic-terror enemy replaced the Soviet Union as an archnemesis.