4 Awesome Books to Outwit Islamophobes

Last updated on: August 5, 2016 at 10:11 am by Hakeem Muhammad

4 Awesome Books to Outwit Islamophobes 2016-08-05T10:11:54-05:00 Hakeem Muhammad

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In Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict, William Cavanaugh exposes a grotesque double standard about the portrayal of violence committed by those proclaiming to be Islamic verses violence committed by white western nation states,”Their violence is seen as fanatical; our violence is seen as rational and peace making.” This book exposes that myth that Muslims are disproportionately responsible for violence and argues this myth is circulated in order to create an illusion of the superiority of the west as a social order. The truth is Muslims are not disproportionately prone to violence but western media has become an expert in rationalizing, downplaying, and obscuring the violence committed by its own state actors in order to give this illusion.

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