Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies

The tone of this book is set on its first page. As the second plane collided with the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Yassir Morsi whispered to himself: what have we done? (3). The rest of the book responds to this whisper; it deconstructs the utterance as the scene of a colonial interpel...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:7eb19a8e6192416b833708fbffd016bf2021-12-02T17:28:21ZRadical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies10.35632/ajis.v36i1.6892690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/7eb19a8e6192416b833708fbffd016bf2019-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/689https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 The tone of this book is set on its first page. As the second plane collided with the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Yassir Morsi whispered to himself: what have we done? (3). The rest of the book responds to this whisper; it deconstructs the utterance as the scene of a colonial interpellation and tracks out the political permutations available within it. Ultimately Morsi’s effort is to de-naturalize (bring into view, render explicit) the powerful, racialized psychodynamics of that moment in which, as he writes, “I knew of a responsible Other.” Basit Kareem IqbalInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 36, Iss 1 (2019)
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Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
description The tone of this book is set on its first page. As the second plane collided with the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Yassir Morsi whispered to himself: what have we done? (3). The rest of the book responds to this whisper; it deconstructs the utterance as the scene of a colonial interpellation and tracks out the political permutations available within it. Ultimately Morsi’s effort is to de-naturalize (bring into view, render explicit) the powerful, racialized psychodynamics of that moment in which, as he writes, “I knew of a responsible Other.”
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title Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
title_short Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
title_full Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
title_fullStr Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
title_full_unstemmed Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
title_sort radical skin, moderate masks: de-radicalising the muslim and racism in post-racial societies
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