The Islamic peril is the latest in a series of constructed American menaces.

Evidence

Perils and menaces, such as the ”yellow peril” that targeted Asian Americans and the ”red menace” of internal communism and socialism, have been constructed throughout U.S. history. The most recent articulation is the ”Islamic peril.” — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 40

Categorization

• XREF: Pattern of manufactured threats parallels the moral panics literature and other chapters’ discussion of sound scares; also echoes the author’s earlier framing of immigrants as disciplined workforce embodying manufactured fears.