The new crusades : Islamophobia and the global war on Muslims / Khaled A. Beydoun ; foreword by Kimberlé Crenshaw.
By: Beydoun, Khaled A [author.].
Contributor(s): Crenshaw, Kimberlé [writer of foreword.].
Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, ©2023Description: 370 pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520402690.Subject(s): Islamophobia | Muslims -- Non-Islamic countriesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | BP52.5 .B49 2023 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000020133 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by Kimberlé Crenshaw -- Introduction : two Tuesdays -- Forever turned around -- War and terror -- Blood and soil -- Internment and exile -- Pandemic and plague -- Monsters and martyrs -- Ablution and abolition -- Conclusion : killing an Arab -- Epilogue.
"The New Crusades examines Islamophobia as a global phenomenon, detailing how the American War on Terror has facilitated and intensified the network of anti-Muslim campaigns unfolding across the world. At a juncture when both democratic and authoritarian regimes across the world are vested to persecuting their host Muslim populations, The New Crusades interrogates--through trenchant analysis and direct testimony of Muslims on the ground--how Islamophobia stands as a unifying global thread of both state and societal bigotry. Whether imposed by way of Hijab Bans in democratic France or the network of concentration camps in communist China, The New Crusades reveals--lucidly and luridly--that Islamophobia is not only a global phenomenon, but one of the world's last bastions of acceptable hate"--