“…Beyond the notion's semantic immaturity, Islamophobia is also often viewed in the social sciences as a 'moral panic' (Abu-Lughod, 2013;Sakellariou 2019; -specifically, one that tends to be aroused in the West by the The White European (not a whiteness of skin, but rather one associated with a domination-based relationship), heir to the Enlightenment, employs Islamophobia as an ideological and organising principle to both lead the Muslim world out of the obscurantism that supposedly characterises it, as well as better assert its global power in the face of an equally global Muslim otherness that is to be subjugated (Bazian, 2019). Neo-Orientalism's Islamophobic declination today serves as a form of racialised governmentality whose goal is to better discipline and assimilate Muslims, while rendering them into subjugated subjects (Easat-Daas, 2019;Sayyid, 2010). Among 19th-century Orientalism's leading figures of authority, the scholar Ernest Renan asserted in his inaugural speech to the prestigious Collège de France, on 21 February 1862, that:…”