The personal homecoming coincided with the national rise of formalized Islamophobia.

Evidence

My Detroit homecoming was met with immense difficulty, mourning, and heartbreak. I had been lured by an ailing father who lived long enough to see me on a consistent basis. My new office was a short drive from his hospital bed, and after his departure, a short drive to his final resting place. But in the coming months, my summoning back to Detroit would make even more sense. Roughly a month after my father’s passing, Donald Trump was elected to office, and the unhinged Islamophobia his presidency formally inaugurated would be acutely felt in metropolitan Detroit, the symbolic seat of Muslim America and the city I called home once again. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 536

Categorization

• XREF: Directly shows the dialectical link between private/structural Islamophobia the reader is tracking; the personal loss and the political turn are joined in time and place. — connects to: Islamophobia has moved from academic usage into mainstream national discourse. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 502; European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 480; Islamophobia is systemic and institutionalized, not merely individual prejudice — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 641 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 536

Broader Connections

• Someone would embrace Islam amid unprecedented Islamophobia in 2017 #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 37
• Islamophobia is systemic and institutionalized, not merely individual prejudice #expands (0.65) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 641
• European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream. #exemplifies (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 480
• Structural Islamophobia triggered a second wave of private Islamophobia #expands (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 291