We have all witnessed Islamophobia. We just didn’t know to call it that. In American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, Khaled A. Beydoun spells out the layers of Islamophobia, in individuals, the media, and the state. He explores the policies that promote Islamophobia here in the US (before and during Trump.) And he pinpoints the intersections of Muslim identity with other groups that are targeted here in the US— communities that are policed, surveyed, and punished day in and day out. ⁣

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