Islamophobia as a political ploy

by Usman Ahmedani
Guardian (UK)
March 30, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2389/islamophobia-as-a-political-ploy

Excerpt:

Consider the case of a controversial cartoon. Not the notorious Danish cartoons, but a cartoon published in the New York Post last month. A response to revelations that emerged in February about the NYPD's large-scale spying on American Muslim students after 9/11, it portrayed three hook-nosed, turbaned terrorists complaining that the police were spying on them. In doing so, it insinuated a link between the terrorists the NYPD is meant to monitor and the innocent American citizens whose civil liberties were deliberately breached.

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