American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear Audiobook (Free)

“I remember the four words that repeatedly scrolled across my brain following the first aircraft crashed in to the World Trade Middle in New York City. ‘Please avoid being Muslims, please don’t end up being Muslims.’ The four terms I whispered to myself on 9/11 reverberated through your brain of each Muslim American that time and each day after . . Our dread, as well as the collective breath or brace for the hateful backlash that ensued, symbolize the existential tightrope that defines Muslim American identity today.”

about American Islamophobia: Understanding the Origins and Rise of Dread

The word “Islamophobia” may be pretty fresh, but irrational fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims is anything but. Though many speak of Islamophobia’s origins in racism, possess we considered how anti-Muslim rhetoric is certainly rooted in our legal system?

Using his unique lens as a crucial race theorist and law professor, Khaled A. Beydoun captures the many ways in which law, policy, and official state rhetoric possess fueled the frightening resurgence of Islamophobia in america. Beydoun charts its long and terrible background, through the plight of enslaved African Muslims in the antebellum South as well as the laws and regulations prohibiting Muslim immigrants from becoming citizens to the methods the battle on terror assigns blame for any terrorist take action to Islam and the myriad studies Muslim Americans face in the Trump period. He passionately argues that by failing woefully to body Islamophobia as something of bigotry endorsed and emboldened by law and carried out by government actors, U.S. culture ignores the damage it inflicts on both Muslims and non-Muslims. Through the stories of Muslim Americans who have experienced Islamophobia across various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines, Beydoun stocks how U.S. laws and regulations shatter lives, whether straight or inadvertently. And with an attention toward benefiting culture all together, he recommends methods for Muslim People in america and their allies to develop coalitions with various other groupings. Like no publication before it, American Islamophobia gives a solid and genuine portrait of Muslim America then and now.