1. Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us About America.
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Dickson, William Rory
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ISLAMOPHOBIA , *MUSLIM Americans , *COLLECTIVE memory , *ACTIVISM , *EPISODIC memory , *MUSLIMS - Abstract
The third chapter, "Policing Muslim Public Life", illustrates how, between 2015 and 2018, anti-Muslim activists utilised global terrorist attacks by al-Qa'ida/ISIS affiliates to mobilise a larger fear of Muslim minorities as fundamentally incompatible with Western societies. Caleb Iyer Elfenbein's I Fear in Our Hearts i is a poignant and timely contribution to the growing body of literature on Islamophobia and the conditions that foster it. Elfenbein concludes with a call for non-Muslims to join Muslims in their work to restore American public life as one that aligns more closely with core American values. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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