Islamophobia

INTRODUCTION (Bringing Hate Speech into the American Mainstream ; Islamophobia as an Ideological Formation of US Empire ; Clinton-Bush-Obama: Islamophobia Continuity ; Vagaries of Islamophobia: Europe and the United States ; Orientalism vs. Islamophobia: Historical Variations). - THE ELITE FOREIGN POLICY NETWORKS: How Islamophobia Is Not Just Prejudice (Ideology is Not a Conspiracy or Party Platform ; The Network of a Media-Intellectual ; Think-Tanks and Policy Institutes ; The Pragmatist Center ; Strategy Groups and Brain-Trusts ; The Institutional Network of Bernard Lewis ; The Master’s Discourse and the Students’ Vision ; Open Letter to President Clinton ; Bush’s War Network ; Fouad Ajami as [White] House Arab). - JOURNALISTS, ROGUE ACADEMICS, and NATIVE INFORMANTS: THE SIEGE OF THE ARAB MIND (Academic Pretensions of Empire: Bernard Lewis ; The Arc of Ideological Scholarship ; Post-Modern Mission Civilisatrice ; Taxonomy of the Siege: Fareed Zakaria ; Ignoring History: Neoliberalism as Modernity ; Systemic Failure to Systematic Reform ; The Force of a Homegrown Success). - NATIVE INFORMANTS: WOMEN AND THE MORAL PRETEXT FOR WESTERN DOMINATION (The B-List: Native Islamophobes ; Enter the A-List Propagandists: The Heroic Victims ; Pablum as Fact: The Tabloid Legacy of Lewis and Zakaria ; Failure and the Politics of Reversal ; Islam’s “Submission” versus the Capitalist Jihad ; Force Against/For Women: Muslim Irresponsibility and Western Responsibility ; Co-opting Feminism and Wars of (Women’s) Liberation). - TEACHING AND ACTIVISM IN THE TEETH OF POWER (Controlling Middle Eastern Studies ; Coordinating an Atmosphere of Fear ; Manuals of Repression The Mandible of Power ; Squadristi, Campus Cops and FBI on Campus). - LIVING IN A STATE OF FEAR (A National Culture of Repression ; Hating the Other: Contextualizing Contemporary Hate-Acts ; The Psychology of Interment ; Techniques of Mainstreaming Cultural Islamophobia ; Engendering Fear to Engineer Consent ; Anesthetizing White America ; Hyper-Sensitizing White America ; Flying While Muslim ; Islamophobia as the Ideological Dimension of US Middle East Foreign Policy ; Mass Arrests, Deportations, Special Registrations and “Watch Lists” ; The National Security State Emerges ; The War on Philanthropy ; Entrapment ; Living in the Black Holes of a New “Normal”). - ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE AGE OF OBAMA (Bush’s “Dictionary of War” and the Lexicon of Punditry ; The Hope and Change of Obama’s Nation ; The Lewis-Zakaria Effect ; The Nobel War Lecture and the Hard Reality of Soft Power ; Paradigm Shifts within Empire Management ; The Phoenix Initiative ; Hillary Clinton, the “National Security Team” and the Smartness of Power ; Obama the Non-Muslim ; It’s Israel, Stupid ; Ideology Wags the Dog). - Epilogue: THE PARALLAX OF AMERICAN POWER: KEEPING THE UNITED STATES RELEVANT (Muslim and Arab Americans Resist Political Islam as an Ideological Formation ; Ideology Over Lobbies and Oil ; Islamophobia and Keeping US Empire Relevant ; Reality Check ; The End of the Beginning)