Displaying Research Topic: Terms/Tropes
12 Dec 2022 | Terms/Tropes
Western Double Standards & 2022 FIFA Qatar World Cup
The recent controversies surrounding the 2022 FIFA World Cup revolve around an ongoing orientalist lens where Western pundits still continue to view the greater Muslim world laced in condescension and double standards not given to other non-Muslim countries, (like China or Russia) who get to host global sporting events without much controversy at all. read the complete article
31 May 2022 | Policy/Law
The Misappropriation of Islamic Terminology
Phrases such as “Christian Sharia Law” and “election jihad” do two things: 1) use Islam and Muslims as a point of reference for all things bad, evil, and unjust, and 2) acknowledge the negative connotations around Islamic terminology in the post-9/11 world and misappropriate these terms to manufacture a threat. Both scenarios are successful because the association of Islam and Muslims with danger is already ingrained in the public’s mind. It’s not only a replay of age-old orientalist thinking — everything “over there” is bad/uncivilized, and “we” are not “them” — but it’s also a sort of linguistic Islamophobia, instrumentalizing Islamic terminology to connect Muslims with danger, violence, and oppression. read the complete article
20 Aug 2021 | Individuals
Global Islamophobia & The “Great Replacement” Conspiracy Theory
In March 2019, a young white supremacist walked into 2 different mosque locations in Christchurch, New Zealand and livestreamed a horrific massacre of 51 innocent Muslim worshippers on Facebook Live in the worst act of… read the complete article
26 Oct 2020 | Individuals
Macron’s policies will further stigmatize French Muslims
Under the banner of protecting the state from “Islamic terrorism,” French authorities launched a crackdown on the country’s nearly six million Muslims. On Monday, October 19th, the government carried out raids targeting Muslim civil society,… read the complete article
08 Jul 2020 | Terms/Tropes
COVID-19 Racial Disparities Are One of Many Outcomes of Structural Racism
Nearly two months after the first known death from the novel coronavirus was logged in the U.S., protests spread around the country in support of ending stay-at-home orders. Ohio, Minnesota, Virginia, Florida, Texas, and several… read the complete article
30 Jun 2020 | Policy/Law
In the U.K., COVID-19 Puts a Spotlight on Systemic Racism
The COVID-19 pandemic has been regarded as a “great equalizer;” however, the effects of the novel coronavirus clearly reveal the deep-seated inequalities that exist in society today. In the United Kingdom, this is visible in… read the complete article
14 May 2020 | Policy/Law
COVID-19 is exacerbating Islamophobia in India
As the world battles COVID-19, Muslims in India are faced with an additional threat: rising Islamophobia. The pandemic in India has brought a spike in anti-Muslim harassment, discrimination, and violence, but the phenomenon is not… read the complete article
02 Apr 2020 | Politics
Xinjiang: Can we call it Genocide?
It’s been three years since reports emerged that China was locking up Uighur and other Turkic Muslim minorities in large-scale camps deceptively dubbed “re-education” centers. Reporting and accounts from Uighurs abroad have revealed the enormity… read the complete article
24 Feb 2020 | Terms/Tropes
Remembering Auschwitz, Deploying Islamopohbia?
Last month, political and religious leaders around the world commemorated the end of the Nazi cruelty, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, the Konzentrationslager. The systematic industrial killing of six… read the complete article
14 Jan 2020 | Terms/Tropes
China’s attempt to change the Quran
Since the People’s Republic of China increased the repression of Uighur Muslims in late 2016, headlines in Western media have highlighted Chinese authorities’ discriminatory policies against Chinese Muslims in the Western region of Xinjiang. Maya… read the complete article