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The Fear of Islam : An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West /

American and European societies, particularly in the long wake of the events of 9/11 and the bombings in Madrid and London, have struggled with the recurrent problem of Islamophobia, which continues to surface in waves of controversial legislative proposals, public anger over the construction of rel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Green, Todd H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • What is Islamophobia?
  • The historical foundations of Islamophobia
  • Colonialism, orientalism, and the clash of civilizations
  • 9/11, the war on terror, and the rise of political Islamophobia
  • The "Islamic threat" in modern Europe
  • Professional Islamophobia
  • Muslims in the media and at the movies
  • Islamophobia and its casualties
  • Combating Islamophobia
  • Appendix. Interviewee profiles
  • Glossary.