Salman Rushdie and Islamophobia

Trousdale, Rachel

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“…Salman Rushdie, a popular British writer who wrote the controversial book 'The Satanic Verses' (1988), in which he MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN CONFLICT AND THE RISE OF LASKAR JIHAD ..... surprised the world by referring to the verses of the Prophet Muhammad as Satan's whisper (Patterson & Patterson, 2015); Salam Rushdie's novel got a positive response from Muslims around the world before he was criticized by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The debate over Salman Rushdie further spread Islamophobia with media support in the West (Iqbal, 2010;Trousdale, 2017). Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, made a controversial documentary film called "Fitna" (2008) that was protested by a Muslim.…”

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Muslim-Christian Conflict and the Rise of Laskar Jihad: Tracing Islamophobia in Central Sulawesi – Indonesia

Nurish

2022

Qijis

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<p>This anthropological research investigates Muslim-Christian conflict and the rise of Laskar Jihad that affects Islamophobia in Central Sulawesi. Islamophobia appeared on the global political surface after the 9/11 tragedy, taking the world's attention to Muslim society. However, we cannot argue that, in recent decades, the media have depicted Muslim culture as backward, uneducated, bad, radical, terrorist, or with all negative images. Even so, Islam is often associated as a religion that supports violence and war. These illustrations depict Islamophobia as a global political threat. However, Islamophobia occurs not only in Western countries, but also in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world. This research explores the phenomenon of Islamophobia in Indonesia. The study focuses primarily on the island of Sulawesi, where the rise of Laskar Jihad organizations, Muslim-Christian conflict, violent extremism, and Islamophobia are interrelated. This research is based on an anthropological approach for which the author conducted fieldwork in Central Sulawesi. Data collection was also taken from online media that can be understood as digital anthropology. In addition, this research paper examines the theory of prejudice. Prejudice is discussed based on facts, but also from perceptions, actions, language, symbols, and the media, to individuals or groups. The research findings show that the first element of Islamophobia in Central Sulawesi is associated with the Muslim-Christian dispute in the late 1990s. Islamophobia's second element relates to the transnational Islamic movement and the rise of Laskar Jihad after reformation.</p>

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Section: Islamophobia Interlinkedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim-Christian Conflict and the Rise of Laskar Jihad: Tracing Islamophobia in Central Sulawesi – Indonesia

Nurish

2022

Qijis

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New Directions in Rushdie Studies

Mendes

Wesley

2017

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Released five years ago, Salman Rushdie's memoir Joseph Anton (2012) serves as an important review of his life and oeuvre up to that point, (re)written from the author's changing ideological positions and reflective of his attitudes one decade into the twentyfirst century. Three years later, Rushdie published his most recent novel to date, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015).This special issue dedicated to exploring "New Directions in Rushdie Studies" sets out to survey the meaning and impact of this prolific author's body of work up to the present moment, while highlighting some of the most innovative approaches in the field. Our aim is to offer new insights to the decades-long discussion over how Rushdie, as a writer, critic, and cultural icon, circumvents any categorization. In the pursuit of this aim, we acknowledge and seek to challenge the critical emphasis often placed on "po-fa" Rushdie. This term, coined by Rushdie and theorized by Robert Eaglestone (2013), denotes a popular reading of Rushdie's work through the lens of the fatwa as a critical turning point. Such an interpretation is understandable, especially given the centrality of the fatwa to Rushdie's memoir (its title is the alias he adopted while in hiding during the "Rushdie affair"). As he writes of himself in Joseph Anton:He had always been post-something according to that mandarin literary discourse in which all contemporary writing was mere aftermath -post-colonial, post-modern, post-secular, postintellectual, post-literate. Now he would add his own category, post-fatwa, to that dusty postoffice, and would end up not just po-co and po-mo but po-fa as well. (2012: 442)

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Salman Rushdie and Islamophobia

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Muslim-Christian Conflict and the Rise of Laskar Jihad: Tracing Islamophobia in Central Sulawesi – Indonesia

Muslim-Christian Conflict and the Rise of Laskar Jihad: Tracing Islamophobia in Central Sulawesi – Indonesia

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