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Terrified - How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream (Paperback)
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Terrified - How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream (Paperback)
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In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist
church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on
the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up
canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his
threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left
at least twenty people dead. In Terrified, Christopher Bail
demonstrates how the beliefs of fanatics like Jones are inspired by
a rapidly expanding network of anti-Muslim organizations that exert
profound influence on American understanding of Islam. Bail traces
how the anti-Muslim narrative of the political fringe has
captivated large segments of the American media, government, and
general public, validating the views of extremists who argue that
the United States is at war with Islam and marginalizing mainstream
Muslim-Americans who are uniquely positioned to discredit such
claims. Drawing on cultural sociology, social network theory, and
social psychology, he shows how anti-Muslim organizations gained
visibility in the public sphere, commandeered a sense of
legitimacy, and redefined the contours of contemporary debate,
shifting it ever outward toward the fringe. Bail illustrates his
pioneering theoretical argument through a big-data analysis of more
than one hundred organizations struggling to shape public discourse
about Islam, tracing their impact on hundreds of thousands of
newspaper articles, television transcripts, legislative debates,
and social media messages produced since the September 11 attacks.
The book also features in-depth interviews with the leaders of
these organizations, providing a rare look at how anti-Muslim
organizations entered the American mainstream.
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