The Park51 mosque controversy took off because of homegrown-terrorism hysteria

Evidence

Casting it as a religious conflict and a provocation, Geller sought to inflame her base. The next day, her group Stop Islamization of America, which she co-founded with Robert Spencer, launched “Campaign Offensive: Stop the 911 Mosque!” While this was not the first time the network had blogged about the community center, its moment had finally arrived. The immediate backdrop was the “homegrown terrorism” hysteria and the green scare (see Chapter 6), which created space for the Far Right to push the rhetoric further to the right. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 646

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter-6 green scare discussion and to the broader pattern of moral panics over symbolically loaded Muslim spaces. — connects to: The mosque controversy exploded only when far-right bloggers weaponized it against a homegrown-terror backdrop — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 658; Homegrown-terror hysteria in liberal media enabled the Ground Zero mosque campaign — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 671; Homegrown terrorism hysteria enabled far-right Islamophobes to seize the national debate. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 511 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The mosque controversy exploded only when far-right bloggers weaponized it against a homegrown-terror backdrop #corroborates (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 658
• Homegrown terrorism hysteria enabled far-right Islamophobes to seize the national debate. #corroborates (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 511
• Homegrown-terror hysteria in liberal media enabled the Ground Zero mosque campaign #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 671
• A terror industrial complex produces Islamophobia through interlocking institutions #expands (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 736