‘Of Middle Eastern Appearance’ is a Flawed Racial Profiling Descriptor

Al-Natour, Ryan

doi:10.1080/10345329.2017.12036090

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“…Crowds sang the national anthem and chanted 'Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi' which is usually heard at sporting events. 26 Two years later, these 'protest' scenes were almost replicated in a semi-regional town of Camden located on the south-western fringe of the Greater Sydney area. After news of a proposed Islamic school in this area, locals mimicked the pogrom by sporting Australian flags and similar items in their rallies against the proposal.…”

Section: Islamophobia As a Celebration Of Colonial Patriotismmentioning

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The Racist ‘Not Racism’ Nature of Islamophobia within the Reclaim Australia Movement

Al-Natour

2021

JCSI

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This article tracks the Islamophobia within the Reclaim Australia movement. The movement organized several anti-Muslim rallies in regional and urban areas across Australia. The formation of this movement in 2015 was entirely based on anti-Muslim racism, as the movement’s pioneers gained traction through their interactions with white supremacist groups. The nature of the movement’s Islamophobia had illustrated how Reclaim Australia’s proponents saw their racism as indistinguishable from celebrating Australian patriotism. This article uncovers how an explicitly racist movement commonly argued that their anti-Muslim positions were ‘not racism’, revealing how denial is at the heart of contemporary Islamophobia. Within these ‘not racism’ narratives, Reclaim Australia enthusiasts utilized strategies that both mobilize notions of race and then denied such mobilization.

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Section: Islamophobia As a Celebration Of Colonial Patriotismmentioning

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The Racist ‘Not Racism’ Nature of Islamophobia within the Reclaim Australia Movement

Al-Natour

2021

JCSI

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“Not Yours to Reclaim”: White possessive logics and the Reclaim Australia movement of 2015–6

Al‐Natour

2024

Aust J Social Issues

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Within settler colonial societies around the world, the racialisation of settlers of colour as “invaders” exemplifies how invasion paradoxes operate on Indigenous lands that remain both stolen and unceded. The Reclaim Australia movement was active in 2015–2016 and frequently denied its racism as it protested the presence of Muslims within Australian society. Whilst Islamophobia is a key defining feature of this movement, this article focusses on Reclaim Australia's persistent expressions of anti‐Indigenous racisms. In analysing this racist movement, I point out that it is not enough to observe that racist invasion narratives among settlers on stolen, unceded Indigenous lands are paradoxical. Rather, that a series of white possessive logics shape these racisms, as the movement produced two dichotomous narrations of Indigenous peoples that involved a commodified “Aboriginal friend” trope, or framed First Nations peoples as ungrateful “beneficiaries” of the colonial project that is Australia.

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Gangland and Task Force Gain: An Alternative Account of Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia

McElhone

2023

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‘Of Middle Eastern Appearance’ is a Flawed Racial Profiling Descriptor

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

The Racist ‘Not Racism’ Nature of Islamophobia within the Reclaim Australia Movement

The Racist ‘Not Racism’ Nature of Islamophobia within the Reclaim Australia Movement

“Not Yours to Reclaim”: White possessive logics and the Reclaim Australia movement of 2015–6

Gangland and Task Force Gain: An Alternative Account of Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia

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