A Tale of Two Islamophobias: The Paradoxes of Civic Nationalism in Contemporary Europe and the United States
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 98 (3):289-321 (2015)
Abstract
I argue that trends of diagnosing anti-Muslim attitudes and
activism as “Islamophobia” in European and the U.S. contexts
may actually aid and abet more subtle varieties of the
very stigmatization and exclusion that the “phobia” moniker
aims to isolate and oppose. My comparative purpose is to draw
into relief—to make explicit and subject to critical analysis—
features of normative public discourse in these two sociopolitical
contexts broadly perceived to be peaceful, prosperous,
liberal-democratic. The features I focus on function under
the auspices of tolerant and nonexclusionary forms of “civic
nationalism” that, in effect, fuel the conflict in question.
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