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The Arab and Islamic terrorist archetype originated from the neocon-Likud alliance after 1979

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aliases@kumar_islamophobia_2012, loc. 473

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The Arab and Islamic terrorist archetype originated from the neocon-Likud alliance after 1979

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Until the 1970s, policy makers saw various state and non-state actors that mobilized Islam on the political stage as allies, but after the Iranian Revolution “bad” Islam and “bad” Muslims made an entrance. The development of the “Arab terrorist” and later the “Islamic terrorist” stock figure, a product largely of the neocon–Likud alliance, began in the late 1970s and continued through the 1980s. The confrontationist approach toward Islamists was not, however, adopted during the 1990s either by the Bush Sr. or Clinton administrations. During the 1990s, empire sought to craft itself through the lens of liberal hegemony. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 473

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  • ADDENDUM: Sharpens the existing cluster’s claim that Islamophobic tropes served imperial policy by pinpointing the specific neocon-Likud genealogy of the ‘Arab terrorist’ archetype and dating it to the post-Iranian Revolution period.
  • XREF: Direct dialogue with Aziz and Rana on the manufactured nature of the terrorist figure; also corroborates Kumar’s own chapter thesis. — connects to: US and Israeli conservatives jointly framed the global Arab terrorist threat — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of
, 237; Postwar modernization theory and the Israel partnership produced the Arab terrorist race — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of
, 103; Neocons partnered with Likud to frame the terrorist as a civilizational threat — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of
, 432 (+10 more)

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