Marusek, S orcid.org/0000-0002-2234-1506 (2018) Inventing terrorists: the nexus of intelligence and Islamophobia. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 11 (1). pp. 65-87. ISSN 1753-9153
Abstract
The transatlantic Islamophobia industry, emboldened by US intelligence efforts to entrap Muslims, appears to have helped to increase permissible levels of Islamophobia across the US, as illustrated by the fiery anti-Muslim rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign. In this article, I first look at five key leaders of the Islamophobia industry who also claim to be “terrorism experts” and have links to US and Israeli intelligence. I then describe US law enforcement’s mass surveillance of Muslims and its invention of terrorists, including a map of the “successful terrorist prosecutions” claimed by the US Department of Justice, most of which were tried only as criminal cases. Finally, I explore in-depth the case against the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim charity based in Texas that was run by Palestinian-Americans and targeted by both the state and the Islamophobia industry for its dubious links to “terrorism”, helping to legitimate the Bush W. Administration’s “War on Terror”. I argue that this nexus of intelligence and Islamophobia has empowered anti-Muslim voices that were formerly marginal.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, Trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Critical Studies on Terrorism. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Islamophobia, “War on Terror”, mass surveillance, Muslim charities, Israel/Palestine |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2019 13:22 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jun 2020 10:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17539153.2017.1351597 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:146149 |