Islamophobia Studies Journal
Volume 8 • Issue 2 • Fall 2024
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ISSN: 23258381 (print)
EISSN: 2325839X (online)
About the Cover The cover art work was designed by Hani Kharufeh, and was commissioned by the journal to draw attention to Islamophobia and media discourses.
About the ISJ The Islamophobia Studies Journal is a bi-annual publication that focuses on the critical analysis of Islamophobia and its multiple manifestations in our contemporary moment.
ISJ is an interdisciplinary and multi-lingual academic journal that encourages submissions that theorize the historical, political, economic, and cultural phenomenon of Islamophobia in relation to the construction, representation, and articulation of “Otherness.” The ISJ is an open scholarly exchange, exploring new approaches, methodologies, and contemporary issues.
The ISJ encourages submissions that closely interrogate the ideological, discursive, and epistemological frameworks employed in processes of “Otherness”—the complex social, political, economic, gender, sexual, and religious forces that are intimately linked in the historical production of the modern world from the dominance of the colonial/imperial north to the post-colonial south. At the heart of ISJ is an intellectual and collaborative project between scholars, researchers, and community agencies to recast the production of knowledge about Islamophobia away from a dehumanizing and subordinating framework to an emancipatory and liberatory one for all peoples in this far-reaching and unfolding domestic and global process.
Advisory Board Members Hishaam Aidi
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Global Fellow at the Open Society Foundation.
Zahra Billoo
Executive Director, CAIR San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CAIR-SFBA).
Sohail Daulatzai
Program in African American Studies and Department in Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine.
Sahar Aziz
Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, and Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar, Rutgers University Law School.
Sr. Marianne Farina
Theology Department, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology.
Jess Ghannam
Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Sandew Hira
International Institute of Scientific Studies, Amsterdam, Holland.
Suad Joseph
Department of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis.
Jasmin Zine
Sociology & the Muslim Studies Option, Wilfrid Laurier University, Toronto, Canada.
Farid Hafez
Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg.
Tariq Ramadan
Oxford University and Director of Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics, Doha, Qatar.
Junaid Rana
Program in Asian American Studies and Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
S. Sayyid
University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
Imam Zaid Shakir
Islamic Law and Theology, Zaytuna College.
Editorial Board Members Hatem Bazian
Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, University of California, Berkeley.
Maxwell Leung
Grinnell College and California College of the Arts.
Munir Jiwa
Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union.
Rabab Abdulhadi
Race and Resistance Studies, San Francisco State University.
Ramon Grosfoguel
Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Editorial Staff Members Umer Mahmood
Marketing and Circulation.
Hani Kharufeh
Design and IT.
Disclaimer:
Statements of fact and opinion in the articles, notes, perspectives, and so on in the Islamophobia Studies Journal are those of the respective authors and contributors. They are not the expression of the editorial or advisory board and staff. No representation, either expressed or implied, is made of the accuracy of the material in this journal, and ISJ cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. The reader must make his or her own evaluation of the accuracy and appropriateness of those materials.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Fanon’s Palestine and the Colonial Dividing Line 166
Hatem Bazian
The Fight Against Islamophobia in Madrid, Paris and London. A Comparative and Qualitative Analysis on Muslim Activism in Three Cities 169
Cecilia Eseverri-Mayer
Self-Defending Ordre Public and an Over Protecting Laïcité: The Twin Foundations of ‘Legal’ Discrimination in France Victimize the Muslim Minorities 200
Zia Akhtar
Islamophobia and Conversion: The Role Anti-Racism Plays in White Converts’ Experience of Islam Post 9-11 217
Sarah Huxtable Mohr
The Fall of Constantinople: A Critical Analysis of Its Bearing on Islamophobia Discourse 235
Ali Qureshi
Islamophobia and the Benefits and Challenges for Prison Imams 246
James Gacek and Amin Asfari
Between Appeal to Citizenship and Biopolitical Fracture: Islamophobia and the New Politics of Muslim Citizenship in India 261
Ashraf Kunnummal