Popular Cultural Islamophobia

Bakali, Naved

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“…In addition to organising and mobilising against the military regime, Buddhist monks also made Buddhist supremacy a main tenet of their activism. Similar baseless fears over cultural erosion have become endemic in North American and European Islamophobic street protest movements; 51 private Islamophobia in Myanmar was formulated and articulated through a discourse of cultural preservation.…”

Section: Structural and Private Islamophobia In Myanmarmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…This line of thinking, referred to as ‘exaltation’, 25 serves to protect a pure and sanitised national imaginary by casting out undesirable qualities such as terrorism, radicalisation and particular forms of violence and abuse into an obscure realm of ‘otherness’. 26 The union between the dangerous Muslim archetype and the notion of exaltation forms the basis for what I describe as ‘“war on terror” logic’. This paradoxical viewpoint imagines terrorism and other forms of political violence as existing through Muslim ‘otherness’, while it simultaneously sanitises blatant manifestations of them that emanate from within the nationalist space/subject on the grounds that they are necessary to police the dangerous Muslim.…”

Section: Understanding Islamophobia and Its Significance In The ‘War mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Islamophobia in Myanmar: the Rohingya genocide and the ‘war on terror’

Bakali¹

2021

Race & Class

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This article analyses the Rohingya genocide of August 2017. The accusation of genocide has been denied by the state of Myanmar, but what is demonstrated here is how the phenomenon of Islamophobia – anti-Muslim racism – informed, sanctioned and culminated in a genocide whose consequences are ongoing. Islamophobia has generally been understood to relate to the ‘othering’ of Muslims in settler societies and the nations of the global North, as documented by critical race, postcolonial and feminist scholars, with much of the current discourse on it structured around the ‘war on terror’. But increasingly, it has also come to encompass systemic racism and anti-Muslim violence in the global South, with, in Myanmar, the ‘war on terror’ used to sanitise more recent violence against the Rohingya. This article examines both structural Islamophobia, and the Islamophobia of private actors in Myanmar, in particular the powerful Buddhist extremist movement. It demonstrates that the co-dependent relationship between structural and private Islamophobia since military rule in Myanmar, in the absence of a strong and unified resistance, contributed to the genocide. Moreover, the troubling logic used to defend state-sponsored violence and killing in Myanmar bears a number of similarities to Islamophobic trajectories in other spaces of the global South in the context of the ‘war on terror’.

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Section: Structural and Private Islamophobia In Myanmarmentioning

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Section: Understanding Islamophobia and Its Significance In The ‘War mentioning

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Islamophobia in Myanmar: the Rohingya genocide and the ‘war on terror’

Bakali¹

2021

Race & Class

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“…Besides being seen as the "Other" in a worryingly large portion of a Western mindset, Islam is perceived as: 'not only incapable of modernity, but also resistant to it'. 46 According to Jackson 'Muslims were now presumed 'bad' until proven otherwise'. 47 The only way by which Muslims can be proven to be 'modernized' is to be 'westernized'.…”

Section: Aspects Of Islamophobiamentioning

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“…Media reports tend to use words such as 'jihad', 'fundamentalist', 'terrorist' and 'radical' when addressing any issue related to attacks by Muslims 'to make Muslims look evil and bad'. 53 The word "fundamentalism" was first used to describe American Protestants or the political right between 1865 and 1910. It then started to be associated with Islam in 1981 when an article written by Anthony Burgess argued that Islam is bloody and violent.…”

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Islamophobia: Definition, History, and Aspects

Jaber

2022

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This literature review draws on the available evidence regarding Islamophobia in the West. Despite the revolutionary ideas in regards to human rights, Muslims are still being persecuted in different countries and mistreated daily. Islamophobia is a current dilemma for Muslims who are suffering from a lot of abuse as a result of misconceptions about Islam in the face of the refugee crisis, some events in the Middle East, terrorism under the pretext of Islam, and prejudicial representation of Muslims in Western media and politics. Consequently, Muslims in the West are frequently misconstrued and affected badly because of their religion. This paper starts by defining the word ‘Islamophobia’ and tracking its origin. Then it tries to look back in history for the main events leading to the eruption of this phenomenon. Lastly, it sheds light on four aspects of Islamophobia which are violence, prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion.

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The Virtual Killing of Muslims: Digital War Games, Islamophobia, and the Global War on Terror

Mirrlees¹,

Ibaid²

2021

Islamophobia Studies Journal

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This article argues that digital war games communicate misleading stereotypes about Muslims that prop up patriarchal militarism and Islamophobia in the context of the US-led Global War on Terror. The article's first section establishes the relevance of the study of digital war games to feminist games studies, feminist international relations, and post-colonial feminism. The second section contextualizes the contemporary production and consumption of digital war games with regard to the “military-digital-games complex” and real and simulated military violence against Muslims, focusing especially on the US military deployment of digital war games to train soldiers to kill in real wars across Muslim majority countries. The third section probes “mythical Muslim” stereotypes in ten popular digital war games released between 2001 and 2012: Conflict: Desert Storm (2002), Conflict: Desert Storm 2 (2003), SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs (2002), Full Spectrum Warrior (2004), Close Combat: First to Fight (2005), Battlefield 3 (2011), Army of Two (2008), Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), Medal of Honor (2010), and Medal of Honor: Warfighter (2012). These games immerse players in patriarchal fantasies of “militarized masculinity” and place a “mythical Muslim” before their weaponized gaze to be virtually killed in the name of US and global security. The conclusion discusses the stakes of the stereotyping and othering of Muslims by digital war games, and highlights some challenges to Islamophobia in the digital games industry.

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Popular Cultural Islamophobia

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Islamophobia in Myanmar: the Rohingya genocide and the ‘war on terror’

Islamophobia in Myanmar: the Rohingya genocide and the ‘war on terror’

Islamophobia: Definition, History, and Aspects

The Virtual Killing of Muslims: Digital War Games, Islamophobia, and the Global War on Terror

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