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" Framing Islam as a Threat: The Use of Islam by Some U.S. Conservatives as a Platform for Cultural Politics in the Decade after 9/11 "
David Douglas Belt
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804503
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TL49334
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1897516191; 10593039
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Tuteja, Rituka K.
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Framing Islam as a Threat: The Use of Islam by Some U.S. Conservatives as a Platform for Cultural Politics in the Decade after 9/11\ David Douglas Belt
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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2014
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Ph.D.
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Planning, Governance and Globalization
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2014
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309
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-74127-8
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Why, in the aftermath of 9/11, did a segment of U.S. security experts, political elite, media and other institutions classify not just al-Qaeda but the entire religion of Islam as a security threat, thereby countering the prevailing professional consensus and White House policy that maintained a distinction between terrorism and Islam? Why did this oppositional threat narrative on Islam expand and even degenerate into warning about the “Islamization” of America by its tiny population of Muslim-Americans—a perceived threat sufficiently convincing that legislators in two dozen states introduced bills to prevent the spread of Islamic law, or sharia, and a Republican Presidential front-runner exclaimed, “I believe Shariah is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and in the world as we know it”?
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Social psychology; International Relations; Sociology
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Social sciences;Psychology;Cultural politics;Discourse;Discourse analysis;Identity politics;Islamaphobia;Security writing
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Planning, Governance and GlobalizationVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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