What is Islamophobia?

Description

As racist undercurrents in many western societies become manifestly entrenched, the prevalence of Islamophobia - and the need to understand what perpetuates it - has never been greater.



Critiquing the arguments found in notionally left accounts and addressing the limitations of existing responses, What is Islamophobia? demonstrates that Islamophobia is not simply a product of abstract, or discursive, ideological processes, but of concrete social, political and cultural actions undertaken in the pursuit of certain interests.



The book centres on what the editors refer to as the 'five pillars of Islamophobia': the institutions and machinery of the state; the far right, incorporating the counterjihad movement; the neoconservative movement; the transnational Zionist movement; and assorted liberal groupings including the pro-war left, and the new atheist movement. The book concludes with reflections on existing strategies for tackling Islamophobia, considering what their distinctive approaches mean for fighting back.
List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Acronyms

Acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction: What is Islamophobia?

1. Islamophobia, Social Movements and the State: For a Movement-centred Approach - Narzanin Massoumi, David Miller and Tom Mills

Part II: Islamophobia, Counter-terrorism and the State

2. Islamophobia as Ideology of U.S. Empire - Arun Kundnani

3. Islamophobia and Empire: An Intermestic Approach to the Study of Anti-Muslim Racism - Deepa Kumar

4. The U.K. Counter-terrorism Matrix: Structural Racism and the Case of Mahdi Hashi - Asim Qureshi

5. The ‘War on Terror’ and the Attack on Muslim Civil Society - Shenaz Bunglawala

Part III: Social Movements From Above

6. Mainstreaming Anti-Muslim Prejudice: The Rise of the Islamophobia Industry in American Electoral Politics - Nathan C. Lean

7. Terror Incognito: Black Flags, Plastic Swords and Other Weapons of Mass Disruption in Australia - Scott Poynting and Linda Briskman

8. Islamophobia, Counter-extremism and the Counterjihad Movement - Hilary Aked

9. The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements - Sarah Marusek

10. The Neoconservative Movement: Think Tanks as Elite Elements of Social Movements from Above - Tom Griffin, David Miller and Tom Mills

11. Liberal and Left Movements and the Rise of Islamophobia - Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller

Part IV: Fighting Back

12. Fighting Back: Challenging the State and Social Movements from Above - Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller

Notes on Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Islam
• Guerre contre le terrorisme
• Discrimination
• Donald Trump
• Muslim ben al-Hajjaj
• General
• LAW
• World
• Muslim
• Racism
• General officer
• Islamophobia
• Geopolitics
• Islamic studies
• EDL
• Prevention
• CAGE
• Henry Jackson Society
• War on Terror
• 21st century
• Musulmán
• Aeropuerto Internacional de Eldoret
• Sociologie, société et politique
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Social Science
• Criminal Law
• International Relations
• Political Ideologies
• Ethnic Studies
• Minority Studies

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 juin 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786800695
• Langue: English

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What is Islamophobia?
What is Islamophobia?
Racism, Social Movements and the State
Edited by Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller
First published 2017 by Pluto Press
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Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgements
PART 1 INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS ISLAMOPHOBIA?
1. Islamophobia, Social Movements and the State: For a Movement-centred Approach Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller
PART 2 ISLAMOPHOBIA, COUNTER-TERRORISM AND THE STATE
2. Islamophobia as Ideology of US Empire Arun Kundnani
3. Islamophobia and Empire: An Intermestic Approach to the Study of Anti-Muslim Racism Deepa Kumar
4. The UK Counter-terrorism Matrix: Structural Racism and the Case of Mahdi Hashi Asim Qureshi
5. The War on Terror and the Attack on Muslim Civil Society Shenaz Bunglawala
PART 3 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FROM ABOVE
6. Mainstreaming Anti-Muslim Prejudice: The Rise of the Islamophobia Industry in American Electoral Politics Nathan C. Lean
7. Terror Incognito: Black Flags, Plastic Swords and Other Weapons of Mass Disruption in Australia Scott Poynting and Linda Briskman
8. Islamophobia, Counter-extremism and the Counterjihad Movement Hilary Aked
9. The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements Sarah Marusek
10. The Neoconservative Movement: Think Tanks as Elite Elements of Social Movements from Above Tom Griffin, David Miller and Tom Mills
11. Liberal and Left Movements and the Rise of Islamophobia Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller
PART 4 FIGHTING BACK
12. Fighting Back: Challenging the State and Social Movements from Above Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Tables
9.1 Foundations identified with the transatlantic Islamophobia network
9.2 Top ten donors to the transatlantic Islamophobia network between 2009 and 2013
9.3 Donors of Israel s occupation/settlements giving at least 1 million between 2009 and 2013
List of Figures
4.1 An overview of the UK counter-terrorism matrix
4.2 Arrest abroad to deportation to the UK
4.3 Profiling leads to suspicion of acts or beliefs
4.4 Suspicion at home leads to detention and deportation abroad
4.5 Citizenship removal while abroad can lead to killing by drone or rendition
9.1 Key personalities in the transatlantic Islamophobia network
9.2 Donors who provided more than 700,000 to the transatlantic Islamophobia network between 2009 and 2013
List of Acronyms
ADL - Anti-Defamation League
AfD - Alternative f r Deutschland (Alternative for Germany)
AJC - American Jewish Committee
BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
BMSD - British Muslims for Secular Democracy
CAMERA - Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
CMPs - Closed Material Proceedings
CND - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
CPS - Crown Prosecution Service
CSC - Centre for Social Cohesion
CSP - Center for Security Policy
CSS - Centre for Secular Space
EDL - English Defence League
EHRC - Equality and Human Rights Commission
ESMOs - Elite Social Movement Organisations
EU - European Union
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
FDD - Foundation for Defense of Democracies
FN - Front National (France)
FP - Freiheitliche Partei sterreichs (Austrian Freedom Party)
GCSE - General Certificate of Secondary Education
GOP - Grand Old Party (US Republican Party)
HJS - Henry Jackson Society
IAM - Islamophobia Awareness Month
ICSR - International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
ICT - International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (Israel)
IDC - Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya, Israel)
IPT - Investigative Project on Terrorism
ISIL - Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
ISIS - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
JNF - Jewish National Fund
JRCT - Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
KH - Keren Hayesod
KTCO - Kentish Town Community Organisation
MAB - Muslim Association of Britain
MCB - Muslim Council of Britain
MEF - Middle East Forum
MEMRI - Middle East Media Research Institute
MEND - Muslim Engagement and Development
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NGO - Non-Governmental Organisation
NUS - National Union of Students
NUT - National Union of Teachers
PII - Public Interest Investigations
OLFA - One Law For All
OWAAD - Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent
PEGIDA - Patriotische Europ er Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes (Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West)
PIRA - Provisional Irish Republican Army
PVV - Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom, the Netherlands)
RDR - Race Disproportionality Ratio
RICU - Research, Information and Communications Unit, Home Office
RJC - Republican Jewish Coalition
SANE - Society of Americans for National Existence
SBS - Southall Black Sisters
SIOA - Stop Islamization of America
StWC - Stop the War Coalition
TA - Terrorism Act
UCU - University and College Union
UIA - United Israel Appeal
UJIA - United Jewish Israel Appeal
UK - United Kingdom
UKACIA - UK Action Committee on Islamic Affairs
UKIP - UK Independence Party
US - United States
VOICE - Victims Of Islamic Cultural Extremism (UK)
WAF - Women Against Fundamentalism
WINEP - Washington Institute for Middle East Policy
WLUML - Women Living Under Muslim Laws
WZO - World Zionist Organization
Acknowledgements
This book is one of the products of the Understanding Conflict conference that we organised at the University of Bath in June 2015. We thank all those who helped make that event possible including the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the University of Bath as well as all participants. At the time, we wrote about the difficulties of putting on events like that, noting that the police had shown an interest, as relayed to us by the security office of the University of Bath (Miller and Massoumi, 2015).
The ideas expressed in this book have been rehearsed and developed via a number of articles on Open Democracy and we thank the editors there for offering us the space to develop these ideas that are sometimes seen as controversial. We have also presented versions of the ideas at a wide variety of seminars and meetings throughout the UK, which have included both formal academic and more engaged events.
The academic events are:

Terrorism expertise and the radicalisation thought collective , Seminar presentation, cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales, Paris (17 April 2015). Thanks to Sylvain Laurens and Francis Chateauraynaud.
Keynote address at the Critical Studies on Terrorism Annual Conference 2015: Beyond Critique, BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group, University of Leeds (3-4 September 2015).
Contesting racialisation: Islamophobic social movements and the battle of ideas , 12th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, London (5-8 November 2015).
Five Pillars of Islamophobia Seminar, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent (19 November 2015). Thanks to Fahid Qurashi.
The state and social movements from above as the driving forces of anti-Muslim racism , Centre for Citizenship and Ethnicity seminar series, University of Bristol (3 December 2015). Thanks to Tariq Modood.
Islamophobia and Eroding Civil Society, Paris (11 December 2015). Thanks to Hatem Bazian.
The State, Civil Society and Islamophobia, European Institute of the Mediterranean, Barcelona (15-16 December 2015). Thanks to Elisabetta Ciuccarelli.
Women, racism and war: Gaza and the global War on Terror , Social Science in the City, Watershed, Bristol (24 March 2016). Thanks to Michal Nahman and Smadar Lavie.
New Racisms II: Neoliberalism and its Others, University of Sussex (9-10 June 2016). Thanks to Naaz Rashid and Malcolm James.
State Crime Seminar: The State, Islamophobia and the Problems of Researching Terrorism and Extremism, Queen Mary University of London (24 November 2016). Thanks to Tom McManus and Penny Green.
Racisms and Political Mobilisations Conference, University of East London (19-20 January 2017). Thanks to Gargi Bhattacharyya, Satnam Virdee and Aaron Winter.

We should also mention the Racism and Islamophobia event at the University of Huddersfield, which was due to be held on 12 July 2016, to which one of us was invited as a keynote speaker. It was cancelled at the last minute as a direct result of the effect of the Prevent duty, an indication of the way the duty undermines both freedom of speech and academic freedom. Some of the saga is recorded in Amrit Singh s (2016) valuable report on Prevent.
We thank the organisers and participants of the following more engaged events, at which one or other of us has spoken:

Radical Independence Conference, Glasgow (22 November 2014).
Critical Platform: Islam, Extremism, Terrorism, organised by the Cordoba Foundation, Queen Mary University of London (20 January 2015).
Five Pillars of Islamophobia tour, organised by Mend, Manchester, Leeds, Leicester, Ilford (September 2015).