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Islamophobia in Australia: From Far-Right Deplorables to Respectable Liberals

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  • Scott Poynting

    (School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia)

  • Linda Briskman

    (School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia)

Abstract

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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  • Scott Poynting & Linda Briskman, 2018. "Islamophobia in Australia: From Far-Right Deplorables to Respectable Liberals," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(11), pages 1-17, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:7:y:2018:i:11:p:213-:d:179328
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    1. Rimple Mehta & Michel Edenborough & Fran Gale & Subadra Velayudan & Samantha Tom Cherian & Linda Briskman & Nichole Georgeou & Ansuya Naguran, 2022. "“This Group Is My Country”: Sri Lankan Tamil Women’s Narratives of Isolation and Connectedness in Australia," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10(4), pages 244-254.
    2. Ulrike M. Vieten, 2020. "The “New Normal” and “Pandemic Populism”: The COVID-19 Crisis and Anti-Hygienic Mobilisation of the Far-Right," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(9), pages 1-14, September.
    3. Tina G. Patel, 2018. "Race/Ethnicity, Crime and Social Control: An Introduction," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(12), pages 1-8, December.
    4. Jennifer E. Cheng, 2022. "‘It’s Not a Race, It’s a Religion’: Denial of Anti-Muslim Racism in Online Discourses," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-16, October.

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