"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It
lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power,
and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the
globe."—Kimberlé Crenshaw, from the foreword
The first book to
examine global Islamophobia from a legal and ground-up perspective,
from renowned public intellectual Khaled A. Beydoun.
Islamophobia has
spiraled into a global menace, and democratic and authoritarian
regimes alike have deployed it as a strategy to persecute their
Muslim populations. With this book, Khaled A. Beydoun details how the
American War on Terror has facilitated and intensified the network of
anti-Muslim campaigns unfolding across the world. The New Crusades
is the first book of its kind, offering a critical and intimate
examination of global Islamophobia and its manifestations in Europe,
Asia, the Middle East, and regions beyond and in between.
Through trenchant
analysis and direct testimony from Muslims on the ground, Beydoun
interrogates how Islamophobia acts as a unifying global thread of
state and social bigotry, instigating both liberal and right-wing
hate-mongering. Whether imposed by way of hijab bans in France,
state-sponsored hate speech and violence in India, or the network of
concentration camps in China, Islamophobia unravels into distinct
systems of demonization and oppression across the post-9/11
geopolitical landscape. Lucid and poignant, The New Crusades
reveals that Islamophobia is not only a worldwide phenomenon—it
stands as one of the world's last bastions of acceptable hate.