Islamophobia and acts of violence : the targeting and victimization of American Muslims /
"Anti-Muslim-inspired violence was not an essential focus of law enforcement until after 9/11/2001. After the deadly terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, the U.S. Muslim community began to feel the heat of anger from their fellow citizens. President George W. Bush was presc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Interpersonal violence.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Anti-Muslim-inspired violence was not an essential focus of law enforcement until after 9/11/2001. After the deadly terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, the U.S. Muslim community began to feel the heat of anger from their fellow citizens. President George W. Bush was prescient in his message to the American people when he stated that the enemy is not a religion, but terrorists that took an extremist position and committed murder. Did his words help to quell Islamophobia, an intense dislike of Islam and Muslims? Unfortunately, they did not. Anti-Muslim-inspired acts have since peaked and subsided, but they remain disturbingly high. This volume examines Islamophobic attitudes and behaviors in a set of chapters that collectively present unique academic inquiries. The focus of chapters ranges from investigating the intersectionality of racism, gender, and religious bias, the complexity of being Black, an immigrant, and Muslim, the trauma associated with Islamophobic victimization, to the growing lethality of terrorist plots against the Muslim community. The problem of Islamophobia has historical roots that have evolved into a more insidious and politicized reality that poses real challenges for the U.S. Muslim community and others. Readers of this volume will leave both informed and disturbed by this ongoing problem"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 220 pages) : illustrations, charts. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190922344 0190922346 9780190922320 019092232X 9780190922337 0190922338 |