Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
Citation preview
The Muslims Are Coming!Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on TerrorArun KundnaniArun Kundnani is an Adjunct Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University,and teaches terrorism studies at John Jay College.
NEWNEWNEWNEW
Price ` 495.00 only
Size : 150mm x 230mm
Pages : 336pp
Year : 2014
Binding : Paperback
ISBN : 9789382993513
•
•
•
•
•
The new front in the War on Terror is the‘homegrown enemy’, domestic terrorists who havebecome the focus of sprawling counterterrorismstructures of policing and surveillance in the UnitedStates and across Europe. Domestic surveillancehas mushroomed – at least 100,000 Muslims inAmerica have been secretly under scrutiny. Britishpolice compiled a secret suspect list of more than8,000 al-Qaeda ‘sympathizers’, and in anotheroperation included almost 300 children fifteen andunder among the potential extremists investigated.
Based on several years of research and reportage,in locations as disparate as Texas, New York, andYorkshire, and written in engrossing, precise prose,this is the first comprehensive critique of counter-radicalization strategies. The new policy andpolicing campaigns have been backed by anindustry of freshly minted experts and liberalcommentators. This book looks at the way these
The Muslims Are Coming!Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
Arun Kundnani
debates have been transformed by the embraceof a narrowly configured and il l-conceivedanti-extremism.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. An Ideal Enemy2. The Politics of Anti-Extremism
3. The Roots of Liberal Rage
4. The Myth of Radicalization
5. Hearts and Minds
6. No Freedom
7. Postboom
8. Twenty-First-Century Crusaders
9. Dream Not of Other Worlds
Acknowledgments • Notes
Available from:
Cambridge House, 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002Tel.: +91 11 43543500 Fax: +91 11 23288534 Email: [email protected]
C-22, Brigade M.M., K.R. Road, Jayanagar, Bengaluru-560070Tel.: +91 80 65593388, 26764817, 26762764 Fax: +91 80 26761322 Email: [email protected]
Cambridge House, Plot No. 80, Service Industries, Shirvane, Sector-1, Nerul,Navi Mumbai-400706 Tel.: +91 22 27709172, 27713810 Fax: 91 22 27709173 Email: [email protected]
The Cambridge Centre, 10, Raja Subodh Mullick Square, 2nd Floor, Kolkata-700013Tel.: +91 33 22259976, 22250046 Fax: +91 33 22250327 Email: [email protected]
The Cambridge Centre, 21/1 (New No. 49), 1st Floor, Model School Road, Thousand Lights,Chennai-600006 Tel.: +91 44 42146807, 28291294 Fax: +91 44 28291295 Email: [email protected]
House No. 3-5-874/6/4 (Near Fernandez Hospital, OP Block), St. No. 5, Hyderguda, Hyderabad-500029Tel.: +91 40 23244458, 66101126 Fax: +91 40 23244459 Email: [email protected]
Agarwal Pride, A Wing, 1308, Kasba Peth, Near Surya Hospital, Pune-411011Tel.: +91 20 24575767, 24575768 Fax: +91 20 24575768 Email: [email protected]
T.C. 25/2732, Lukes Lane, Ambujavilasam Road, Thiruvananthapuram-695001Tel: +91 471 4064404, 4064405 Fax: +91 471 4070093 Email: [email protected]
Representative Office: Monzeera House, Om Bhawan, 2nd Floor, Panbazar, Guwahati-781001Telefax: +91 361 2735336 Email: [email protected]
www.cambridgeindia.orgIndia Private Limited
Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/cambridgeindia Twitter: www.twitter.com/cambridgeindia 03/2014
Foundation Books is an imprint ofCambridge University Press, India.
