The Cold War’s end left Islam and the West mutually perceived threats

Evidence

Metaphorically, its demolition was the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the ending of the global political and military models that had dominated international relations for the past forty or so years. If simplistic arguments and theses can be in any way useful, what was occurring at the global level was, as Huntington put it, that both the West and Islam were being forced to shift their global perception and relationship: ‘the collapse of communism removed a common enemy of the West and Islam and left each the perceived threat of each other’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 246

Categorization

• XREF: This is the geopolitical hinge the reader’s definitional survey depends on — the moment that primed the 1997 Runnymede framing Allen is about to analyze. — connects to: Islamic challenge forged the collective identity of ‘the West’; Communism’s collapse left West and Islam as mutual perceived threats — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 246; 1989 marked the first time Muslims threatened the West from within and without — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 234 (+18 more)

Related

• Communism’s collapse left West and Islam as mutual perceived threats (similarity 0.91)
• The Cold War’s end positioned Islam as communism’s replacement global threat (similarity 0.90)
• Islam replaced communism as the West’s designated global enemy threat (similarity 0.90)
• Islamic challenge forged the collective identity of ‘the West’ (similarity 0.89)
• 1989 marked the first time Muslims threatened the West from within and without (similarity 0.86)
• The Islamic-terror enemy replaced the Soviet Union as an archnemesis. (similarity 0.84)
• During the early Cold War, Islam was coded positively in US discourse (similarity 0.84)
• Western hostility to Islam shifted from theological to political rationales across the centuries (similarity 0.84)
• Western publics and leaders perceived Islam as the post-Cold War threat (similarity 0.83)
• Islam served neocons as a substitute Cold War enemy when the USSR collapsed (similarity 0.82)
• Liberal imperialists and neocons both frame Islamism as the new totalitarianism requiring Western expungement (similarity 0.82)
• Neocons needed Islam as a unifying substitute for the USSR enemy (similarity 0.82)
• The Muslim terrorist replaced the Soviet communist as the West’s public enemy number one (similarity 0.81)
• US policy was always split between anti-Soviet and anti-Islamist interests (similarity 0.81)
• Global events normalized Islamophobic discourse and made Muslims the ultimate Other (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• US facilitated Muslim violence when it served Cold War interests #expands (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 288
• American Cold War strategy cultivated Islamists against secular nationalism #expands (0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 219
• Global events normalized Islamophobic discourse and made Muslims the ultimate Other #corroborates (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 255
• Islamophobia worldwide shares the core link between Islam and terrorism #corroborates (0.78)
• Clash of civilizations framing located terrorism’s cause within Islam itself #expands (0.78) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 266
• Western hostility to Islam shifted from theological to political rationales across the centuries #complicates (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 106
• The US needed Islam as a foil to define itself as Western #corroborates (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 154
• Islamophobia functions as a screen hiding Western geopolitical responsibility #expands (0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 513
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #expands (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421
• The West’s question should be why it fears Muslims, not why they hate us #responds-to (0.72)
• Contemporary anti-Western sentiment and Western Islamophobia both stem from the colonial legacy #complicates (0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 182
• Unchallenged propaganda legitimized monitoring Muslims like Cold War reds #exemplifies (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 559