Here’s how white privilege dehumanises Muslims, and why you’ve only seen the start of Islamophobic terrorism Opinion | DrUsaama
are far more pervasive than most mainstream commentators are able to recognise.
In this context, it is worth acknowledging Islamophobia as a consequence of the globalised structures of white privilege. Thethat is the War on Terror is part of a structure that allows for the use of one tragedy—the attacks of 9/11 which killed more than 3,000 people—to be used to justify visiting death and destruction upon non-white bodies on an epic scale.
The Islamophobic trope that runs through such a pronouncement is the suggestion that Muslims are a powder keg of violence simply waiting to explode. Rather than provide comfort to Muslims who are under attack from white supremacists, Bin Bayyah’s concern which takes up half of his statement is that “In fact, Bin Bayyah is complicit in the culture of Islamophobia as the President of the FPPMS in line with the policies of its funder, the UAE Foreign Minister, Abdullah bin Zayed .
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