It addresses one of the hot-button issues in the United States, and in the opinion of this reviewer, in extenso in the rest of the Western world. [...] From the gaze of the state and society, Islam was and still is an indelible marker of other- ness, and in War-on-Terror America, it is a political identity that instantly trig- gers the suspicion of acts of terror and subversion” (15). [...] The excesses of the US invasion of Iraq drove forward the negative image of the “haji,” a pejorative term used by US forces about Iraqi resisters to the occupation. [...] The end of the Cold War saw the withering of the Communist threat, so a new one had to be invented. [...] The fall of the Soviet Union has led Harvard Professor Samuel Hunting- ton to declare formally that Islam, and the billions of people of that faith, is the existential threat to American civilization.
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