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'Islamophobia kills'. But where does it come from?
This paper examines the global provenance of Australian Islamophobia in the light of the Christchurch massacre perpetrated by a white-supremacist Australian. Anti-Muslim racism in Australia came with British imperialism in the nineteenth century. Contemporary Islamophobia in Australia operates as part of a successor empire, the United States-led 'Empire of Capital'. Anti-Muslim stories, rumours, campaigns and prejudices are launched from Australia into global circulation. For example, the spate of group sexual assaults in Sydney over 2000-2001 were internationally reported as 'ethnic gang rapes'. The handful of Australian recruits to, and supporters of, IS, is recounted in the dominant narrative as part of a story propagated in both the United Kingdom and Australia about Islamist terrorism, along with policy responses ostensibly aimed at countering violent extremism and targeting Muslims for surveillance and intervening to effect approved forms of 'integration'.
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Islamophobia in Australia: From Far-Right Deplorables to Respectable Liberals
In Australia since about the turn of the millennium, discrimination against Muslims has been increasingly normalized, made respectable, and presented as prudent precaution against violent extremism. Vilification of Muslims has posed as defending ‘Australian values’ against those who will not integrate. Liberal political leaders and press leader-writers who formerly espoused cultural pluralism now routinely hold up as inimical the Muslim folk devil by whose otherness the boundaries of acceptability of the national culture may be marked out and policed. The Muslim Other is positioned not only as culturally incommensurate, but dangerously so: dishonest, criminally inclined, violent, misogynist, homophobic, backward, uncivilized. On the far right, extremist nationalist organizations incite racist hatred under cover of this rhetoric, often cloaked as reasonable common sense. This paper undertakes an ideology analysis of political and media discussion, and examines the forms of social control that they advance and sustain.
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International Nets and National Links: The Global Rise of the Extreme Right—Introduction to Special Issue
Work on this special issue has spanned two years, bookended by two highly mediatized, violent, extreme right-wing attacks, perpetrated on opposite sides of the globe [...]
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Entitled to be a Radical? Counter-Terrorism and Travesty of Human Rights in the Case of Babar Ahmad
This article asserts that the construction of the prevailing notion of “radicalisation” in pursuit of counter-terrorism under US-led hegemony sustains practices of “empire crime” that systematically undercut the rights of Muslim populations in countries such as the UK and the US. This argument is advanced through the case study of Babar Ahmad, who was detained without trial for eight years in the UK, before being sent, under a new and lopsided extradition treaty, to the US to face terrorism charges over his expression of support for the Taliban on his web pages in 2002. Mr Ahmad suffered torture and racist humiliation at the hands of the London Metropolitan Police (Met) after the raid in 2003 on his home by counter-terrorism officers, acting on advice from the US. Ahmad eventually won compensation for the “sustained and gratuitous violence” admitted by the Met. Nevertheless, he was held at Long Lartin high-security prison for eight years, and then extradited to the US where he spent four years on remand, under abusive conditions. The civil and political rights, as expressed in the international covenant of that name, were notably missing in the case of Mr Ahmad. His indictment in Connecticut was shown to be error-ridden and invalid. The judge whom he finally faced after a plea bargain was struck, described him as a “good person”, who had never been interested in terrorism.
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Islamophobia and Crime – Anti-Muslim Demonising and Racialised Targeting: Guest Editor’s Introduction
This special issue deals with anti-Muslim racism, crime, criminalisation and attacks – both ideological and material – on Muslims and their communities in countries like Britain, Canada and Australia. A new spectre is haunting these places: an imagined ‘other’ is seen to be subversively spreading Muslim ‘extremism’ and exhorting anti-Western violence from within these societies, supporting global terrorism abroad and at home, and espousing hyperpatriarchal, homophobic and sexually exploitative culture. The ‘Muslim other’ has become the folk demon of our time in a racialising ideology that circulates internationally and has strikingly similar effects in quite different local contextsTo find out more about this special edition, download the PDF file from this page.
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Empire Crime, Rendition and Guantánamo Bay: The Case of David Hicks
This article argues that a concept of “empire crime” can usefully extend that of state crime to better comprehend the unlawful “extraordinary rendition”, detention without trial and torture associated with the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay and other sites where imperial “exceptions” to US and international law are claimed and practiced. Other nation states have been complicit in this regime — the UK, Canada and Australia among them. Their state crimes in this respect are inextricably part of the “empire crime” of the US-led empire of capital. This article considers one case in detail: that of David Hicks, one of the two Australians rendered to and detained at Guantánamo Bay with the connivance of the Australian and other states. The US state has variously denied, rationalized, exceptionalised and blamed the victims of the state crimes in this regime, and the Australian and other states involved have falsely denied knowledge and otherwise followed suit.
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Special edition: Corruption downunder - Guest editors' introduction
This special issue gathers and enlarges upon papers that were first presented at the interdisciplinary ‘Corruption Downunder’ symposium held at the University of Auckland in November 2015; most of the papers published here stem from the lively and collegial discussions at the symposium. At that time New Zealand was authoritatively measured (by Transparency International) to be Number 2 ‘least corrupt’ nation in the world; it is now tied at Number 1 with Denmark. What this rank, as measured by Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), actually counts for is something that we explore in this special issue. On the face of it, it would seem perverse to be focusing on corruption in such a place as New Zealand. With its larger northern neighbour Australia listed at a respectable 11th out of 175 that same year (2014 data), why would a bunch of academics want to engage in serious discussions about the problem of corruption ‘downunder’? New Zealand has never been ranked outside of the top four, and has been ranked Number 1 in a total of 12 out of 22 years since the survey began. Australia is generally ranked in the top ten and has never been out of the top 13 least corrupt countries since the survey began. To access the full text of the introducton to this special issue on corruption downunder, download the accompanying PDF file.
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A common ‘outlawness’ : criminalisation of Muslim minorities in the UK and Australia
Immigrants to the United Kingdom and Australia - 'mainstream' cultural expectations to assimilate - Muslim young immigrants - the subject of heightened popular and state Islamophobia - ethnic gangs - paranoia about Islamist 'radicalisation' - preliminary findings from fieldwork in Greater Manchester over 2012.
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