Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
Against The Current vol. 150
Short, Jase; Woloszyn, Andy
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/3127Publisher: Against The Current
Date Written: 01/01/2011
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13726
When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same “moral panic,” invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” The amalgamation of racial, ethnic, religious and national identities into a demonic Islamic “Other,” has been spreading throughout the United States as well as Western Europe.
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