In this title, Sheehi examines the rise of anti-Muslim and
anti-Arab sentiments in the West following the end of the Cold War
through GW Bush's War on Terror to the Age of Obama. He
investigates the increased mainstreaming of Muslim-bating rhetoric
and explicitly racist legislation, police surveillance,
witch-trials and discriminatory policies towards Muslims. The book
focuses on the various genres and modalities of Islamophobia from
the works of academics to the commentary by mainstream journalists,
to campaigns by political hacks and special interest groups.
Featured are Bernard Lewis, Fareed Zakaria, Thomas Friedman, David
Horowitz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji, George W. Bush, Dick
Cheney, John McCain, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Sheehi
contends that their theories and opinions operate on an assumption
that Muslims, particularly Arab Muslims, suffer from particular
cultural lacuna that prevent their cultures from progress,
democracy and human rights. While the assertion originated in the
colonial era, Sheehi demonstrates that it was refurbished as a
viable explanation for Muslim resistance to economic and cultural
globalization during the Clinton era. Moreover, the theory was
honed into the empirical basis for an interventionist foreign
policy and propaganda campaign during the Bush regime and continues
to underlie Barack Obama's new internationalism. If the assertions
of media pundits and such academics became the basis for White
House foreign policy, Sheehi also demonstrates how they were
translated into a sustained domestic policy of racial profiling and
Muslim-baiting by US agencies from Homeland Security to the
Department of Justice. Furthermore, Sheehi examines the collusion
between non-governmental agencies, activist groups and lobbies and
US local, state and federal agencies to in suppressing political
speech on US campuses critical of racial profiling, US foreign
policy in the Middle East and Israel. While much of the direct
violence against Muslims on American streets, shops and campuses
has subsided, Islamophobia runs throughout the Obama
administration. Sheehi, therefore, concludes that Muslim and
Arab-hating emanate from all corners of the American political and
cultural spectrum, serving poignant ideological functions in the
age of economic, cultural and political globalization.
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