{"product_id":"9780932863997","title":"ISLAMOPHOBIA: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims","description":"Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims examines the rise of anti-Muslim and  anti-Arab sentiments in the West following the end of the Cold War through GW Bush's War on  Terror to the Age of Obama. Using \"Operation Desert Storm\" as a watershed moment, Stephen  Sheehi examines the increased mainstreaming of Muslim-bating rhetoric and explicitly racist  legislation, police surveillance, witch-trials and discriminatory policies towards Muslims in North  America and abroad.  The book focuses on the various genres and modalities of Islamophobia from the works of rogue  academics to the commentary by mainstream journalists, to campaigns by political hacks and  special interest groups. Some featured Islamophobes are Bernard Lewis. Fareed Zakaria, Thomas Friedman, David Horowitz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney,  John McCain, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Their theories and opinions operate on an  assumption that Muslims, particularly Arab Muslims, suffer from particular cultural lacuna that  prevent their cultures from progress, democracy and human rights. While the assertion originated  in the colonial era, Sheehi demonstrates that it was refurbished as a viable explanation for  Muslim resistance to economic and cultural globalization during the Clinton era. Moreover, the  theory was honed into the empirical basis for an interventionist foreign policy and propaganda  campaign during the Bush regime and continues to underlie Barack Obama's new  internationalism.  If the assertions of media pundits and rogue academics became the basis for White House  foreign policy, Sheehi also demonstrates how they were translated into a sustained domestic  policy of racial profiling and Muslim-baiting by agencies from Homeland Security to the  Department of Justice. Furthermore, Sheehi examines the collusion between non-governmental  agencies, activist groups and lobbies and local, state and federal agencies to in suppressing  political speech on US campuses critical of racial profiling, US foreign policy in the Middle East  and Israel. While much of the direct violence against Muslims on American streets, shops and  campuses has subsided, Islamophobia runs throughout the Obama administration. Sheehi,  therefore, concludes that Muslim and Arab-hating emanate from all corners of the American  political and cultural spectrum, serving poignant ideological functions.","brand":"Clarity Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132593979632,"sku":"9780932863997","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780932863997_p0.jpg?v=1763870207","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780932863997","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}