Islamophobia Studies Journal

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• The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North
• Table of Contents
• White Supremacist Mythologies in Canadian Educational Curricula: How Islamophobia Manifests and is Perpetuated in Canadian Schools
• Islamophobia Studies Journal
• Racial Secularism as Settler Colonial Sovereignty in Quebec 1
• Resisting Islamophobia through Digital Artifacts of Mourning
• Canadian Muslim Youth and the Complex Dynamics of State-Driven “Radicalization” Narratives
• Memorializing Aqsa Parvez: Public Feelings and Secular Multiculturalism
• Editorial Introduction
• Islamophobia Studies in India: Problems and Prospects

  This article aims to situate the problems and prospects of thinking about critical Islamophobia studies in the context of India. In doing so, first, the article traces the technical and political impasses to the emergence of critical Islamophobia studies in India by looking at the problem of denial of Islamophobia with respect to Indian nationalism and at the same time the rise of a new security paradigm in the context of the global war on terror. A new approach on critical Islamophobia studies, which is cognizant towards the mass desire of Islamophobia, is introduced in order to understand its popular base in India. Secondly, the limitations of the framework of communalism in developing critical Islamophobia studies are analyzed in light of the biopolitical aspects of state and society in India. Finally, the article proposes a preliminary roadmap to a new approach to understand the politics of Islamophobia as an active desire based in practice in India and introduces a new typology of precautionary and proactionary Islamophobia in the context of rising Hindu nationalism by locating its normative and derivative dimensions.

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• The Political Economy of Hate Industry: Islamophobia in the Western Public Sphere

  Minority communities across the globe are increasingly being targeted for vilification and demonization which consequently result in their marginalization and persecution, among other forms of physical, psychological, structural and cultural violence. These may be on account of race, religion,...

• The Way They Treat their Daughters and Wives: Racialisation of Muslims in Norway

  “What do you think might be the reasons for existing negative attitudes toward Muslims?” This was one of the open-ended questions asked in a broad quantitative survey on attitudes toward minorities in Norway. The responses make up the theme of this article. Through a qualitative analysis of the...

• The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North
• Islamophobia as a Deterrent to Halal Global Trade
• Cultural Politics of Humor in (De)Normalizing Islamophobic Stereotypes
• The Islamophobic-Neoliberal-Educational Complex
• The Politics of Arab and Muslim American Identity in a Time of Crisis: The 1986 House of Representatives Hearing on Ethnically Motivated Violence Against Arab-Americans
• Reconstructing the Muslim Self: Muhammad Iqbal, Khudi, and the Modern Self

  Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), one of the 20th century's most influential Muslim thinkers, theorized a radically new understanding of Islamic selfhood. For Iqbal, the self (khudi) was marked by an individuality that made it distinct and inherently equipped to overcome colonial incursions. Iqbal put...

• Resisting Islamophobia through Digital Artifacts of Mourning
• The Islamophobia Industry, Hate, and Its Impact on Muslim Immigrants and OIC State Development

  This paper first looks at the Islamophobia industry and some of its most well know figures. It then looks at relations between Muslims and Non-Muslims in Europe and the United States. I discuss the historical and cultural precedents surrounding Islamic immigration. I show that there are differences ...