Islamophobia the challenge of pluralism in the 21st century

Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns. The 2006 Danish cartoon crisis and the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg speech have underscored the urgen...

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Main Authors: Esposito, John L. (Author), Kalın, İbrahim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / John L. Esposito
  • The context of Islamophobia: Islamophobia and the limits of multiculturalism / Ibrahim Kalin
  • Islamophobia in the West: a comparison between Europe and the United States / Jocelyne Cesari
  • Case studies: An obsession renewed: Islamophobia in the Netherlands, Austria, and Germany / Sam Cherribi
  • Islamophobia in the United Kingdom: historical and contemporary political and media discourses in the framing of a 21st-century anti-Muslim racism / Tahir Abbas
  • Islamophobia and anti-Americanism: measurements, dynamics, and consequences / Mohamed Nimer
  • Muslims, Islam(s), race and American Islamophobia / Sherman A. Jackson
  • Manifestations: Islamophobia and the War on Terror: youth, citizenship, and dissent / Sunaina Maira
  • Islamophobia and American foreign policy rhetoric: the Bush years and after / Juan Cole
  • Islamophobic discourse masquerading as art and literature: combating myth through progressive education / Anas Al-Shaikh-Ali
  • Orientalist themes in contemporary British Islamophobia / Kate Zebiri
  • From Muhammad to Obama: caricatures, cartoons, and stereotypes of Muslims / Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg.