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com, stocked up on Islam-bashing books whose main arguments were that Islam posed numerous threats to the United States, in particular, and to the West in general.
When I became editor of AJISS, we decided to devote an entire issue to Islamophobia and not just review a few influential Islam-bashing books.
By this stage, enough time had passed for it to become obvious that Muslim- bashing post-9/11 was not simply a passing phenomenon based on revenge, but a deeper-seated structural issue in western societies, from the UK to North America to Australia.
Allen finds that 9/11 has sharp- ened an already present Islamophobia, with the left and far-right coming together in their anti-Muslim pronouncements.
Yenigun provides a sustained and theoretically informed study of the American media’s representation of Islam and Muslims in the immediate post-9/11 period and the subsequent war on Afghanistan.
Gallagher takes us through a case study of Time magazine’s portrayal of Afghan women in the post-9/11 period to demonstrate the continuity of Orientalist themes of Muslims.
Stockdale takes a look at a very specific site of Islamophobia in the United States – the Holy Land Experience (HLE) theme park in Orlando, Florida, that had opened in early 2001.
Islam is now being presented as a major threat to “Israel, Christianity, the United States, and the democratic free world.
Hence, the MENTOR’s anti-Islamophobia project, described by Jasmin Zine, our book review editor, is a vital and inspirational story about Muslim responses to Islamophobia.