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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, Public opinion, Islamophobia, Muslims, Islam in mass media, Islam, Christianity and other religions, islam, Islam, relations, christianity, Public opinion, united states, East and west, Islam, history
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Table of Contents

Images of Islam in Europe
Early contact with Islam
Al-Andalus and Muslim rule in Europe
The crusades and the reconquista
From polemic to indifference
The Ottomans
Romanticism and the enlightenment
Colonialism and orientalism
Napoleon and "enlightened" colonialism
The characteristics of orientalism
American imperialism
The persistence of orientalist myths
Myth one: Islam is a monolithic religion
Myth two: Islam is a uniquely sexist religion
Myth three: the "Muslim mind" Is incapable of reason and rationality
Myth four: Islam is an inherently violent religion
Myth five: Muslims are incapable of democracy and self-rule
Political Islam and US policy
Allies and enemies: the United States and political Islam
Islam and modernization
Saudi Arabia and the King of Islam
Iran and Afghanistan: irrational mullahs and freedom fighters
Israel's enemies
Islamists and the post/cold war era
The separation of mosque and state
Orientalist myths
The de facto separation of religion and politics
Modernization and secularization
The failures of Islamic revivalism
Radical secular nationalism
Political Islam: a historical analysis
What is political Islam?
The growth of political Islam
Political Islam: mixed fortunes
Political Islam through an anti-imperialist framework
The foreign policy establishment and the "Islamic threat"
The neocons
The Israel connection
Humanitarian imperialism
September 11 and the Bush doctrine
Obama and liberal imperialism
Islamophobia and domestic politics
Legalizing racism:
Muslims and the attack on civil liberties
Terrorizing Arabs and Muslims
Surveillance, detention, and deportation
Preemptive prosecution
The terrorism spectacle
Theories of radicalization
Green scare: the making of the domestic Muslim enemy
Manufacturing the green scare
The "ground zero mosque" controversy
The rise of the Islamophobic network
Islamophobia and the new McCarthyism
The new McCarthyites
"Education" and media propaganda
Mainstream and liberal enablers
Systemic racism
Conclusion: fighting Islamophobia.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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305.6/97
Library of Congress
BP52 .I8543 2012, BP172

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL25384484M
Internet Archive
islamophobiapoli0000kuma
ISBN 13
9781608462117
LCCN
2012023891
OCLC/WorldCat
801355394

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