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Contemporary Anti-Muslim Politics provides a succinct but potent
critique of the policies of Western nations toward Muslims,
particularly the aggressive foreign policies of the United States
and the exclusionary domestic policies of Europe. These policies
have already claimed millions of Muslim lives. For decades,
policies that rely on war, exclusion, and ghettoization have
triggered conflict escalation. The actions of groups such as the
Islamic State and Boko Haram are reactions to this history. Their
tactics exacerbate negative stereotyping of Muslims generally and
Western military strategies cause many Muslims to pursue
survivalist politics that enable and strengthen such groups.
Anti-Muslim politics in Western nations takes many forms beyond war
and exclusion, including racialization, stereotyping, sacrilegious
cultural assaults, mass media scapegoating, and even tolerance,
which implies something unpalatable in need of toleration. The
gridlock brought by pluralism and constitutionalism, both in Europe
and the United States, serves few people well, but it has locked
Muslims into an especially abusive status quo.
The Trouble with America critiques the theory and practice of
American government, focusing on the fatal flaws of America's core
political arrangements. Institutionalized pluralism, the structural
dispersal of power, generates government too weak to solve our
public problems. American constitutionalism, the limitation of
government power and authority, protects property rights far better
than it defends our civil liberties, and it offers little or no
protection for non-citizens. Capitalism is a hyper-competitive and
grossly unfair economic system, which rewards pre-existing wealth
far better than hard work or talent, and encourages petty
materialist consumption of mostly low-quality goods, undermining
taste as well as fairness. Taken together, pluralism,
constitutionalism, and capitalism in America harm our society in a
myriad of ways, leaving us with inadequate representation, poor
leadership, social and political paralysis and irresponsibility,
unrealistic self-images, and scandalously poor domestic and foreign
policies. This book will prove a valuable supplement in American
government courses, an alternative to the centrist material
currently dominating textbooks on this subject.
The Trouble with America critiques the theory and practice of
American government, focusing on the fatal flaws of America's core
political arrangements. Institutionalized pluralism, the structural
dispersal of power, generates government too weak to solve our
public problems. American constitutionalism, the limitation of
government power and authority, protects property rights far better
than it defends our civil liberties, and it offers little or no
protection for non-citizens. Capitalism is a hyper-competitive and
grossly unfair economic system, which rewards pre-existing wealth
far better than hard work or talent, and encourages petty
materialist consumption of mostly low-quality goods, undermining
taste as well as fairness. Taken together, pluralism,
constitutionalism, and capitalism in America harm our society in a
myriad of ways, leaving us with inadequate representation, poor
leadership, social and political paralysis and irresponsibility,
unrealistic self-images, and scandalously poor domestic and foreign
policies. This book will prove a valuable supplement in American
government courses, an alternative to the centrist material
currently dominating textbooks on this subject.
Contemporary Anti-Muslim Politics provides a succinct but potent
critique of the policies of Western nations toward Muslims,
particularly the aggressive foreign policies of the United States
and the exclusionary domestic policies of Europe. These policies
have already claimed millions of Muslim lives. For decades,
policies that rely on war, exclusion, and ghettoization have
triggered conflict escalation. The actions of groups such as the
Islamic State and Boko Haram are reactions to this history. Their
tactics exacerbate negative stereotyping of Muslims generally and
Western military strategies cause many Muslims to pursue
survivalist politics that enable and strengthen such groups.
Anti-Muslim politics in Western nations takes many forms beyond war
and exclusion, including racialization, stereotyping, sacrilegious
cultural assaults, mass media scapegoating, and even tolerance,
which implies something unpalatable in need of toleration. The
gridlock brought by pluralism and constitutionalism, both in Europe
and the United States, serves few people well, but it has locked
Muslims into an especially abusive status quo.
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