Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction

The bombings of the world trade towers in New York on the 11th of September 2001 dramatically changed the landscape of the west-east relations into blatant binary opposites of us and them. Within the western hemisphere, the repercussions of the 9/11 continue to be felt by minority Muslim communities...

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Main Authors:	Raihanah M.M., Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Noraini Md Yusof
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Language:	English
Published:	Journal of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9354/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9354/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9354/1/108-117_Islamophobia-Raihanah.pdf

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spelling	ukm-93542016-12-14T06:49:40Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9354/ Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction Raihanah M.M., Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Noraini Md Yusof, The bombings of the world trade towers in New York on the 11th of September 2001 dramatically changed the landscape of the west-east relations into blatant binary opposites of us and them. Within the western hemisphere, the repercussions of the 9/11 continue to be felt by minority Muslim communities living within the larger non-Muslim mainstream society such as America and Britain. The heightened tension has escalated into a new discourse termed Islamophobia causing Islam to be regarded as “a source of intolerance, extremism and terrorism, one whose adherents are out to destroy Western values.” Muslims living in the west, especially those who overtly exercise their religious sensibilities, be that in the form of the hijab for women or beard for men, bear the brunt of xenophobia exhibited by the mainstream society. This panel presentation sets out to address the issue of Islamophobia in fiction. The main premise of the presentation is to problematise the experience of being a Muslim minority as narrated in post 9/11 fiction by women. How did the 9/11 bombings affect the Muslim’s sense of reality as a member of religious and cultural minority? What multifaceted realities are Muslims in the west, be that born Muslims or reverts, exposed to? These issues will be examined based on the selected fiction by Muslim women writers in America and Britain. Journal of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9354/1/108-117_Islamophobia-Raihanah.pdf Raihanah M.M., and Ruzy Suliza Hashim, and Noraini Md Yusof, (2015) Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction. e-BANGI: Jurnal Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, Specia (1). pp. 108-117. ISSN 1823-884x http://www.ukm.my/e-bangi/index.php?option=com_jresearch&view=publicationslist&Itemid=45&lang=en
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description	The bombings of the world trade towers in New York on the 11th of September 2001 dramatically changed the landscape of the west-east relations into blatant binary opposites of us and them. Within the western hemisphere, the repercussions of the 9/11 continue to be felt by minority Muslim communities living within the larger non-Muslim mainstream society such as America and Britain. The heightened tension has escalated into a new discourse termed Islamophobia causing Islam to be regarded as “a source of intolerance, extremism and terrorism, one whose adherents are out to destroy Western values.” Muslims living in the west, especially those who overtly exercise their religious sensibilities, be that in the form of the hijab for women or beard for men, bear the brunt of xenophobia exhibited by the mainstream society. This panel presentation sets out to address the issue of Islamophobia in fiction. The main premise of the presentation is to problematise the experience of being a Muslim minority as narrated in post 9/11 fiction by women. How did the 9/11 bombings affect the Muslim’s sense of reality as a member of religious and cultural minority? What multifaceted realities are Muslims in the west, be that born Muslims or reverts, exposed to? These issues will be examined based on the selected fiction by Muslim women writers in America and Britain.
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title	Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction
title_short	Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction
title_full	Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction
title_fullStr	Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction
title_full_unstemmed	Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction
title_sort	islamophobia and muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction
publisher	Journal of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2015
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9354/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9354/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9354/1/108-117_Islamophobia-Raihanah.pdf
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Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction

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