The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims
Nathan Lean
Language: English
Pages: 248
ISBN: 0745332536
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
WITH THE RISE OF “stealth jihad,” “creeping Sharia,” “Islamofascism,” and “terror babies” in places like “The United States of Islamica,” “Eurabia,” and “Londonistan,” who wouldn’t be scared?
Fear sells and the Islamophobia Industry — a right-wing cadre of intellectual hucksters, bloggers, politicians, pundits, and religious leaders — knows that all too well. For years they have labored behind the scenes to convince their compatriots that Muslims are the enemy, exhuming the ghosts of 9/11 and dangling them before the eyes of horrified populations for great fortune and fame.
Their plan has worked.
The tide of Islamophobia that is sweeping through Europe and the United States is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. It is their design.
In recent years, Muslim-led terrorist attacks have declined yet anti-Muslim prejudice has soared to new peaks. The fear that the Islamophobia Industry has manufactured is so fierce in its grip on some populations that it drives them to do the unthinkable.
This powerful and provocative book explores the dark world of monster making, examining in detail an interconnected, and highly organized cottage industry of fear merchants. Uncovering their scare tactics, revealing their motives, and exposing the interests that drive them, Nathan Lean casts a bright and damning light on this dangerous and influential network.
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financial rewards to women who have more children out of wedlock.”80 As a result of these policies, Fischer noted, greater American society was suffering. “It’s no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits,” he wrote in a post that was quickly removed from the AFA website.81 Fischer’s eliminationist rhetoric towards Muslims appeared to be a derivative of his racially tinged language towards blacks and Native Americans. He had demonstrated a
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