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WEBINAR: Reflecting on 20+ years of the securitisation of Islam and Muslims

What is the place of Islam in the Australian imaginary, given that it continues to be securitised more than 20 years after 9/11?

INTERVIEW: Terrorism, Muslimness and Islamophobia – Counterterrorism’s impact on Muslim communities

  • Dr Rizwaan Sabir,

The moment I was accused of being a terrorist, my identity as a Muslim took precedence over everything else.

Islamophobia and Securitisation: The Dutch Case by Liselotte Welten and Tahir Abbas

  • Professor Mark Sedgwick,

The book shows that the securitisation of Islam and Muslims in the Netherlands may actually be reducing security, not improving it.

Islamophobia in Singapore and/ vs Western Islamophobia: the state, colonialism, and the Muslim experience

  • Associate Professor Paul Hedges,

In Singapore there exists a different kind of Islamophobia to that in countries with a Christian cultural heritage.