Us Versus Them
The intersection of Islamophobia and US foreign policy has attracted considerable scholarly attention since 9/11. Landmark books exploring this connection include Mahmood Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terrorism, and Deepa Kumar’s Islamophobia and the Pol...
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oai:doaj.org-article:f6517f5dc7f5478088dbbe7e594cc22a2021-12-02T19:41:15ZUs Versus Them10.35632/ajis.v35i1.8212690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/f6517f5dc7f5478088dbbe7e594cc22a2018-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/821https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 The intersection of Islamophobia and US foreign policy has attracted considerable scholarly attention since 9/11. Landmark books exploring this connection include Mahmood Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terrorism, and Deepa Kumar’s Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire. Douglas Little’s Us Versus Them: The United States, Radical Islam, and the Rise of the Green Threat is not as ambitious as these studies. It does not forge new theoretical ground in our understanding of how Islamophobia is instrumentalized to bolster US foreign policy objectives. But this is not necessarily a criticism. Little’s purpose is more modest, though his project no less difficult. He seeks to provide a lively, accessible introduction to US engagement with Muslim extremists since the end of the Cold War and the problematic paradigms that have shaped this policy. In this task, he succeeds admirably ... Todd GreenInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 35, Iss 1 (2018) |
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The intersection of Islamophobia and US foreign policy has attracted considerable
scholarly attention since 9/11. Landmark books exploring this
connection include Mahmood Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Bad Muslim:
America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terrorism, and Deepa Kumar’s Islamophobia
and the Politics of Empire.
Douglas Little’s Us Versus Them: The United States, Radical Islam, and
the Rise of the Green Threat is not as ambitious as these studies. It does not
forge new theoretical ground in our understanding of how Islamophobia
is instrumentalized to bolster US foreign policy objectives. But this is not
necessarily a criticism. Little’s purpose is more modest, though his project
no less difficult. He seeks to provide a lively, accessible introduction to US
engagement with Muslim extremists since the end of the Cold War and the
problematic paradigms that have shaped this policy. In this task, he succeeds
admirably ...
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