Review: Allen, Chris. 2010. Islamophobia. Farnham: Ashgate. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-5140-6. Pbk. £16.99

Warden, Rosalind

doi:10.1558/firn.v6i2.187

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“…Ukrainians are constructed as refugees in a way that is fully dependent not on how European immigrants to Sweden have been seen before, but in contrast to Muslim immigrants. Beyond the findings of previous research which has shown how the native group -in this case 'real' Swedes -is contrasted to the Muslim out-group (Allen, 2010;Bangstad, 2022;Cesari, 2021;Horsti, 2017), Islamophobia is used in these representations to justify the value and worthiness of another immigrant group. With this, we have shown how the unity that is formed around Islamophobia trumps any nationalist views of the Swedish nation-state as particularly superior or white (Ericsson, 2021;Kjellman, 2013) and any potential social and economic consequences which are usually believed to be at risk due to immigration.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…In particular, Muslims have lately come to constitute the main external threat for the far right in recent years. While the perceived threat of Islam and the 'Orient' can be traced all the way back to medieval times (Said, 1978), as a consequence of 9/11, Islamophobia has surged throughout the United States and Europe in the last decades (Allen, 2010;Sheridan, 2006) to become one of the central elements of far-right discourse (e.g., Awan, 2014Awan, , 2016Ekman, 2015;Vieten, 2016). These Islamophobic farright expressions, independently of where they are expressed, have tended to depict Islam as an anti-democratic and non-progressive opposite to 'the West' wherein Muslims are portrayed as an external, incompatible danger to Western culture, values, traditions and heritage (Cammaerts, 2018;Feldman and Jackson, 2014;Mondon and Winter, 2017;Oboler, 2016;Yakushko, 2009).…”

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Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers

Palmgren,

Åkerlund,

Viklund

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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This paper analyses how immigrants are understood by Swedish alternative media and the role that Islamophobia plays, if at all, in these representations. What is remarkable is that although all articles were sampled explicitly to discuss Ukraine, the analysis showed that Muslim immigrants figured with unexpected frequency throughout. The value of these two immigrant groups were antagonistically contrasted through arguments of alleged differences in culture and geographical origin, perceived legitimacy as asylum seekers, and in terms gratitude and supposed level of threat to Swedish society. With this, the unity that is formed around Islamophobia trumps any nationalist views of the Swedish nation state as particularly superior or white and the social and economic consequences which are usually believed to be at risk due to immigration. By extension, the war in Ukraine is articulated as a matter of whiteness and works to exploit war for strengthening the transnational far right.

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Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers

Palmgren,

Åkerlund,

Viklund

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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“…59 Later, the Christian theologians and scholars in the context of crusades and other episodes like them increasingly depicted Islam initially as idolatry or ultimately as heresy, as inherited from the work of John of Damascus, in order to justify violence and aggression against the Muslims; resulting in a general perception of the Muslims as barbaric enemy of the Christendom. 60 By the eleventh century, the image of Islam was brought into sharper focus and this coincided, not coincidently, with the crusades. 61 The key constituents of the "Christian version" of Islam at that time included the notions that "violence is an essential part … of Islam" and that "Islam reverses the Christian moral concepts."…”

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Construction of Islam and the Muslims in the USA: Evidence from Print Media

Tariq

Iqbal

Khan

2021

JITC

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The US media features a negative rhetoric against the Muslims by posing them as a threat to the West. This article/study aims to explore how the US media constructs the image of Islam and the Muslims for the viewers. It also aims to analyze the perspective of the US writers about Islam and the Muslims. The paper analyzes 2,523 articles, descriptive of Islam and the Muslims and published in the US press from January to March 2017. It explores and describes the level to which the negative words and metaphors are used in the leading articles, which eventually constructs a negative image of the Muslims and Islam among the US citizenry. This negative portrayal by the US media points to the emergence and evolution of the patterns of representation of Islam, which are constitutive of an existential threat image. The study recommends the analysis of all media actors who speak / write about Islam and the Muslims at a broader level to understand the problem in its true perspective/essence with an aim to explore its prognostics.

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“…The ideological turn saw the BNP achieve unprecedented success. Bolstered by the fallout from the 9/11 attacks in the United States, immediately after the 2005 terrorist attacks on the London public transport system (7/7) the BNP launched a series of overtly Islamophobic electoral campaigns 'Islam Out of Britain' and 'Islam Referendum Day' [21]. In municipal elections the following year, the support shown towards the BNP was the best of any radical-right party in British history.…”

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Another Ideological Turn? Investigating the Re-Emergence of Race Among the British Radical Right

Allen

2023

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This article investigates the unexpected re-emergence of race in both the rhetoric and activities of the British radical-right. In doing so it seeks to better understand the reasons why race has re-emerged, how race has been contemporarily deployed by the radical-right, and the extent to which the re-emergence of race will force the radical right’s recent ideological focus on religion – more specifically, the religion of Islam and Muslims as adherents – begin to retreat. It does this first by setting out the methods and approaches used throughout. From here, necessary and appropriate context is provided about the British radical-right generally and the decades old ideological turn more specifically. Next, the circumstances and reasons for the re-emergence of race are critically engaged: focusing on the immediate aftermath of 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests as also the wider socio-political landscape of contemporary Britain. Taking into account both established and newly formed groups and movements from within the British radical right, the role and function played by race is considered next. As part of this, an in-depth analysis of the role and function of race in the rhetoric and activities of Patriotic Alternative is included. In conclusion, this article reflects on a number of arguments about why the re-emergence of race among the British radical-right is - albeit to varying degrees - a cause for concern.

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Review: Allen, Chris. 2010. Islamophobia. Farnham: Ashgate. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-5140-6. Pbk. £16.99

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Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers

Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers

Construction of Islam and the Muslims in the USA: Evidence from Print Media

Another Ideological Turn? Investigating the Re-Emergence of Race Among the British Radical Right

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