USA: Fear and Loathing of Islam

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This week’s VideoNation features an interview with special issue guest-editor Moustafa Bayoumi on how manifestations of Islamophobia have changed over the last decade and why there may be reason for hope.

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By Katrina vanden Heuvel | June 18, 2012

FEAR AND LOATHING OF ISLAM. In this week’s special issue of The Nation, a diverse range of contributors take a critical look at the ways in which anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States more than a decade after 9/11 continues to fester.

The familiar narrative—portraying Muslims as potential terrorists or sympathizers has evolved, explains CUNY professor Moustafa Bayoumi in “Fear and Loathing of Islam.”

In the past few years, a more damaging narrative has emerged, where “simple acts of religious or cultural expression and the straightforward activities of Muslim daily life have become suspicious,” sowing a very different kind of paranoia. Also in the issue, award-winning author Jack Shaheen traces the long and powerful history of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotypes in American pop-culture.
Attorney and legal expert Abed Award examines how hysteria over the Islamic takeover of US courts is fueling anti-Sharia legislation across the states.

And CUNY law professor Ramzi Kassem traces how the NYPD has created the largest spying program by local law enforcement on record—“a sprawling effort to map entire communities that emerged from the toxic convergence of the permanent state of emergency gripping our society since 9/11 with the NYPD’s historic tendencies.”

Laila Al-Arian’s deeply personal testimony, “Who Stands with the Accused?” offers a window into what it’s like to have a family member accused and indicted of “supporting” terrorism and offers a gripping tale of support from unlikely allies.

This week’s VideoNation features an interview with special issue guest-editor Moustafa Bayoumi on how manifestations of Islamophobia have changed over the last decade and why there may be reason for hope.


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