Muslims in a Post-9/11 America

Gillum, Rachel

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“…Because people automatically categorize the world into ingroups and outgroups, or "we" versus "they" (Tajfel and Turner 1979), and intergroup prejudice and hostility become more visceral and tribal in the face of threat, we theorize that ethnic minority groups that share the same national or religious characteristics as the terrorists should be the primary targets of intolerance. 7 As noted earlier, for example, after terror attacks by Islamic extremists, Arab and Muslim groups in the U.S. and elsewhere were viewed as the "enemy Other"-violent, threatening, foreign and unassimilable, and therefore deserving of constant surveillance and other forms of civil liberties restrictions (e.g., Gillum 2018, Jamal 2008Huddy et al 2005). Secondary targets of intolerance are likely to be fellow travelers who are sociologically dissimilar from terrorists but are perceived to be naïve sympathizers or "enablers" of either terrorist groups or associated domestic groups.…”

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Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”

Peffley

Hutchison

Shamir

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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How does terrorism influence citizens’ willingness to deny basic liberties to domestic groups alleged to be “fellow travelers” of the perpetrators of terrorism? Based on intergroup threat theory and social identity theory, we hypothesize that political intolerance toward fellow traveler groups is determined by three factors: (1) the level of terrorism, (2) the degree to which domestic outgroups are alleged to be demographically or politically associated with terrorist groups, and (3) whether individuals identify strongly with the political Right. Consistent with our hypotheses, we find that higher levels of terrorism in Israel over a thirty-year period produce a “diffusion of political intolerance” among Israeli Jews on the Right that extends to domestic groups distant from the perpetrators of terrorism. Our findings have important implications for the study of terrorism, democracy, and political tolerance.

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Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”

Peffley

Hutchison

Shamir

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Identity and Discrimination

Love

2023

Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Arab Americans

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Countering Violent Extremism and Radical Rhetoric

Mitts¹

2021

Int Org

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How do extremist sympathizers respond to counter-radicalization efforts? Over the past decade, programs to counter violent extremism have mushroomed around the world, but little is known of their effectiveness. This study uses social media data to examine how counter-radicalization efforts shape engagement with extremist groups in the online world. Matching geolocated Twitter data on Islamic State sympathizers with granular information on counter-extremism activities in the United States, I find that, rather than deradicalizing, these efforts led Islamic State sympathizers to act strategically to avoid detection. After counter-extremism activities, the group's supporters on Twitter who were in the vicinity of these events began self-censoring expressions of support for the Islamic State, altered profile images and screen names, and encouraged followers to migrate to Telegram, an encrypted network not viewable by the public. These findings reveal previously unknown patterns in the effects of counter-extremism programs in the digital era.

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Muslims in a Post-9/11 America

Cited by 7 publications

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Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”

Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”

Identity and Discrimination

Countering Violent Extremism and Radical Rhetoric

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