Postcolonial Critique of Islam in the Eyes of West in Samira Ahmad’s Internment

Abstract

Islam and Muslims are depicted as ‘Other’ in literary world, particularly Muslim community living in west misrepresented and marginalized by the ‘Us’. Westerns identify Muslims as fundamentalists and a threat to west. Therefore western world has started to observe zero-tolerance policy to avoid growing militancy across the globe and allegedly called Islam and Muslims behind this escalation of the terror. This zero-tolerance policy of the west in response to Islamophobia, revive the former practices of fascism that has been adopted by ardent follower of fascism in first half of twentieth-century. The practices and stances of fascism are opted by the America to maintain its dominance over the Muslim and to marginalize them against the stereotyping and othering image created by it. The novel Internment (2019) by Samira Ahmad exhibits the entire milieu controlled by the American government for exploitation of the Islam and Muslim. Qualitative methodology and close textual analysis is used this exploratory research to state the stances of fascism and marginalization of Muslims due to these fascist practices and to know the stance of Ahmad towards Islamophobic practices of the west.