Abstract
Previous to 2001, Islam was a mere flicker on the radar of popular xenophobic paranoia. A decade and a half and the world’s first global moral panic later, this situation has changed entirely, apparently by design. As the editors of Global Islamophobia point out, the Terror Scare has elevated Muslims to ‘transnational folk devil,’ foisting the logic of ‘if you think for yourselves the terrorists win’ on the public realm in the name of defending democratic values. The paradoxical character of the generally destructive effects of this Terror Scare on democratic culture remains hard to miss, not least given the rhetoric about western values that tends to accompany much of the debate.Download the PDF file from this page to read Ben Debney's complete review of George Mirgan and Scott Poynting's edited book.
Highlights
Protracted scare-mongering about global Islam has tended to frustrate attempts to understand the meaning of the 9/11 attacks and of their root causes
It is in this context that Scott Poynting and George Morgan bring us Global Islamophobia, a collection of articles examining the eponymous subject as it appears in a variety of countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, the United States, Australia and the UK, in addition to a number of more theoretical treatments
Such diversity of input is a particular feature of this volume: it really draws into meaningful relief the multifaceted ways in which Islamophobia manifests and its tendency to vary according to social and geographical context
Summary
Protracted scare-mongering about global Islam has tended to frustrate attempts to understand the meaning of the 9/11 attacks and of their root causes. It is in this context that Scott Poynting and George Morgan bring us Global Islamophobia, a collection of articles examining the eponymous subject as it appears in a variety of countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, the United States, Australia and the UK, in addition to a number of more theoretical treatments.
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