Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies (Aug 2015)
THE PROJECT OF ISLAMOPHOBIA
Abstract
Most of academicians argue that islamophobia is more enlarge after 9/11—troppled the twin towers of the World Trade Center by attacking three commercial jetliners. It is no doubt that 9/11 has hold the comeback of religion into world agenda which situated in political, ideological, religious, economic, sociological, cultural and other questions. Under such conditions, the authority announced the dangerous climate, constitutes the military to begin “war on terror” intent to safety; in other way, it makes way to invoke a battle ethic between “good and evil” such as the meaning of dangerous and safety. In the present article argues that such global war on terror and its prevention policies can lead to the institutionalization of Islamophobia, circulate for extremism to flourish of public imagination. It is a project of terror and also counterterror as discourse of islamophobia. Base on Runnymede Trust, Islamophobia coined to describe racism of Muslims and intolerance of their religious and cultural beliefs. This discourse turn up after Cold War as Huntington clash of civilizations’ thesis and Fukuyama’s declaration of capitalism and liberal democracy along with Gulf War and Islam revolution. Afterward, this paper will not fully demonstrate all discussions, but instead will look briefly at make sense of islamophobia with some discriminations, intimidations and exclusions on the muslim and its impact on the cultural measures.
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