Islamophobia and Crime – Anti-Muslim Demonising and Racialised Targeting: Guest Editor’s Introduction

Islamophobia and Crime – Anti-Muslim Demonising and Racialised Targeting: Guest Editor’s Introduction

<p>This special issue deals with anti-Muslim racism, crime, criminalisation and attacks – both ideological and material – on Muslims and their communities in countries like Britain, Canada and Australia. A new spectre is haunting these places: an imagined ‘other’ is seen to be subversively spr...

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Main Author: Scott Poynting
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Queensland University of Technology 2015-10-01
Series:International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
Online Access:https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/258
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spelling doaj-9d47e32f85cb4df9950bb22741e987532021-06-02T10:18:08ZengQueensland University of TechnologyInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy2202-79982202-80052015-10-01431310.5204/ijcjsd.v4i3.258188Islamophobia and Crime – Anti-Muslim Demonising and Racialised Targeting: Guest Editor’s IntroductionScott Poynting0Auckland University<p>This special issue deals with anti-Muslim racism, crime, criminalisation and attacks – both ideological and material – on Muslims and their communities in countries like Britain, Canada and Australia. A new spectre is haunting these places: an imagined ‘other’ is seen to be subversively spreading Muslim ‘extremism’ and exhorting anti-Western violence from within these societies, supporting global terrorism abroad and at home, and espousing hyperpatriarchal, homophobic and sexually exploitative culture. The ‘Muslim other’ has become the folk demon of our time in a racialising ideology that circulates internationally and has strikingly similar effects in quite different local contexts</p><p>To find out more about this special edition, download the PDF file from this page.</p> <p> </p>https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/258
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description <p>This special issue deals with anti-Muslim racism, crime, criminalisation and attacks – both ideological and material – on Muslims and their communities in countries like Britain, Canada and Australia. A new spectre is haunting these places: an imagined ‘other’ is seen to be subversively spreading Muslim ‘extremism’ and exhorting anti-Western violence from within these societies, supporting global terrorism abroad and at home, and espousing hyperpatriarchal, homophobic and sexually exploitative culture. The ‘Muslim other’ has become the folk demon of our time in a racialising ideology that circulates internationally and has strikingly similar effects in quite different local contexts</p><p>To find out more about this special edition, download the PDF file from this page.</p> <p> </p>
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