Description
In recent years, Islamophobia has seen a disturbing global rise. Blaming Muslim minorities for economic, political, and social problems is an increasingly common rhetorical strategy for politicians in countries worldwide. A narrative of the "threatening Muslim invader" is troublingly prevalent, regardless of whether the targets of such rhetoric are born citizens or new arrivals. Its consequences are deadly and devastating for Uyghurs in China-indefinitely detained in concentration camps-Indian Muslims attacked in pogroms, and the Rohingya victims of genocide. In parts of Europe and North America, the consequences of Islamophobia are less overtly violent but no less harmful: Muslims are banned from wearing hijab, building minarets, opening Islamic schools, or legally immigrating to certain countries. In the United States, Europe, and India, Islamophobic rhetoric is increasingly normalized, fracturing ethnically diverse societies as xenophobic right-wing political ideals accumulate followers at an alarming pace. In turn, Islamophobia in the West gives license to discrimination elsewhere, creating a vicious cycle of Islamophobia.Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism is the first book to systemically examine the complex factors contributing to the rise in Islamophobia and right-wing populism across three continents-North America, Europe and Asia. Internationally renowned scholars offer insightful and empirically grounded analysis linking local contexts with global trends. This groundbreaking book is an essential contribution to discourse on immigration, racism, xenophobia, and human rights.
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Barbara A. Lee1. IntroductionPart 1 Islamophobia in North America: Race, Religion, and Citizenship2. The Price of Recognition: The One Islam and the ManyJoseph Massad3. The Politics of Vulnerability: Today's Threat to American Muslims' Religious Freedom Asma T. Uddin4. Islamophobia and the Rise of Ethnonationalist Populism in the United StatesSaher SelodPart 2 Islamophobia in Europe: Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism and Nationalism5. Post-Colonialism, Post-National-Socialism, German Reunification, and the Rise of the Far-Right: Making Sense of Islamophobia in GermanyFarid Hafez6. Islamophobia: How the Far Right Went Mainstream in BritainMobashra Tazamal7. France's Islamophobic Bloc and the "Mainstreamization" of the Far RightMarwan Mohammed8. Islamophobia Without Muslims? Not Only in Eastern EuropeIvan Kalmar9. Islamophobia in Russia: Ethnicity, Migration, and National SecuritySahar F. Aziz and Sarah Calderone10. Muslim Life in Belgium: In Search of a Vivre EnsembleJohn Farmer and Ava MajlesiPart 3 Islamophobia in Asia: Genocide, Pogroms, and Detention11. Displacing and Disciplining Muslims in India's Burgeoning Hindu Rashtra Audrey Truschke12. Contesting the Spatialization of Islamophobia in Urban IndiaStuti Govil and D. Asher Ghertner13. (Un)Made in China: Uyghur Muslims at the Intersection of Islamophobia and Ethnic CleansingKhaled A. Beydoun14. Islamophobia and Genocide: Myanmar's Rohingya GenocideRonan LeeConclusion: Lessons from South Africa15. Confronting Islamophobia: Defeating Colonial Bigotries, Learning From South AfricaEbrahim RasoolIndex
