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Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms Hardcover – May 17, 2016

by Arsalan Iftikhar (Author), Reza Aslan (Contributor)

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President Jimmy Carter called Scapegoats "an important book that shows Islamophobia must be addressed urgently." Because when a murderous psychopath goes on a killing spree, law enforcement officials and the media never make his religion the central issue--unless he happens to be a Muslim. Then it sets off another frenzied wave of commentary about the inherent evils that lurk within the Muslim faith. From Fox News talking heads, who regularly smear Muslim leaders as secret terrorists, to Bill Maher, who has made Islam a routine target, it has become widely acceptable to libel a religion with a following of over 1.5 billion people--nearly one-quarter of the world's population. Now popular commentator Arsalan Iftikhar--better known as "The Muslim Guy"--offers a spirited defense of his faith that is certain to win him wide acclaim--and yes, another round of overheated scolding from the usual media quarters.

Arsalan Iftikhar's spirited defense of his faith is certain to hit a chord during the 2016 campaign season, as politicians and pundits vie to be the toughest on the block when it comes to escalating the hostilities in the Middle East, often demonizing Islam in the process. With his witty and levelheaded demeanor, the author will cut through all the sound and fury as a voice of sanity and reason.

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May 17, 2016
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1510705759
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“Scapegoats is an important book that shows Islamophobia must be addressed urgently. Violence or hate speech against any community based on their faith is un-American and is against our founding principles.” Because when a murderous psychopath goes on a killing spree, law enforcement officials and the media never make his religion the central issue--unless he happens to be a Muslim.—PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

“My brother Arsalan Iftikhar is one of America’s great champions of reason and respect. His book is a stirring addition to the literature of American pluralism. May it help to hold back the ugliness—the intolerance and the indecency—that is disfiguring our country.”—LEON WIESELTIER

“Iftikhar writes with a deep love of his country, and profound anguish about the betrayal of her cherished values of fairness and inclusiveness. This book is a wake-up call for America.”—BOBBY GHOSH, GLOBAL NEWS ANALYST, CNN

“[Arsalan Iftikhar has] become a go-to voice in American media, playing a variety of roles—explaining Islam, decrying Islamic extremism and also what he sees as rising islamophobia. It is that last which concerns him in a new book, and the title sums up its mission. It's called Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms."
--MICHEL MARTIN, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

About the Author

Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, founder of TheMuslimGuy.com, and senior editor of The Islamic Monthly magazine. He is a prominent media commentator on Islam and Muslims, who has been interviewed in many media outlets around the world, including CNN, BBC World News, National Public Radio (NPR), Al-Jazeera English, Time, Rolling Stone, The Economist and NBC's The Today Show and Meet the Press. He lives in Washington, DC.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hot Books (May 17, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1510705759
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1510705753
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.7 x 7.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,413,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #818 in Religious Intolerance & Persecution
- #1,504 in Islamic Social Studies
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The books provides facts like the statistics of the number of crimes comitted in ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017

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This book is a must for anyone, especially the non-Muslims, to have an overview of the the root cause and factors that lead to the rising phenomenom of Islamophobia in the west, because the subjective notion of Islamphobia in the world is increasing by the day due to ignorance which leads to baseless fears of the people who belong to the Muslim faith. And this can help, if read with an open mind, to prevent future disasters both from the Islamophobes and the extremist.

The books provides facts like the statistics of the number of crimes comitted in the US soil by persons who has an Islamic background and percentage wise the numbers are very minimal. As the author stated humurously that Americans are likely to die in a faulty furniture than to a terrorist vilolence. In fact most of the vile crimes which claimed most lives in one incident were committed by white extreme right supremacists.

It also revealed in this book that the bigotry and prejudicial acts against the minorities in the US did not start on the post-9/11 incident. In otherwords, the clock of oppression committed against them did not start ticking after the attack on the World Trade Center, it started since time immemorial. The Jew, the Latinos, the Germans of which Donald Trump's ancestry belonged, the Japanese, and it goes without mentioning, the inhumane treatment against the Negroes in the past, all of them suffered the same fate that the Muslim minorities in America is facing right now.

Though this book is about the scapegoating of the Muslims in America where terroristic events were used to justify the arbitrary actions of the US authorities against them, it is very important to read it as I find it very similar to what is happening to other countries where Muslim are subjected to oppression by their very own government. What is happening to the Muslim in the US has also a large similiraties to what is happening to other Muslim minorties elswhere in this modern age. Hence the importance of reading this book to have a much broader perspective to what is happening right now in the world where Muslims are looked at collectively with an eye of contempt.

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Alabama Anglophile

This is not the book I hoped it would be

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2017

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I had hoped the author would give insights into mainstream Muslim beliefs as a way to counter Islamaphobia, especially the non-Muslim's fear of Jihad. Instead he catalogues every instance of violence since 9/11 with some connection to Islamic extremists. He also notes other historical scapegoats. Unfortunately for my purposes he cites only two instances of positive Islamic beliefs: the first is in Chapter Three where he recounts a parable involving the Prophet Muhammad that illustrates the concept of "Ubuntu" (showing kindness to hostile neighbors); and in Chapter Seven's quotation from the Prophet's final sermon, beginning "All mankind is from Adam and Eve..." His book ends with a plea for tolerance without giving a non-Muslim a basic education of Islamic principles on which to base such tolerance.

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Old Woodworker

Excellent Topic Biased Reporting

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017

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I enjoyed the book. Many sections were superb. During those times the author seemed to be on the campaign trail in public. Conclusions and examples showed insight and were enlightening. However other times his deep seated biases against certain individuals were obvious. Any figures he presented as evidence was suspect because of that bias.

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Dadabhoy

... freedoms that American Muslims and Muslims in America can enjoy are in some way impinged by the War on ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016

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If there’s still some debate as to whether the safety and freedoms that American Muslims and Muslims in America can enjoy are in some way impinged by the War on Terror and its resulting Islamophobia, the three incidents of violence just this week should dispel them: a New York woman tried to rip the hijabs off of two women who were walking their children in a Brooklyn park, also in New York, Scottish Muslim tourist had her shirt set on fire by a crazed passerby, and a mosque in Florida was the site of an arson attack simply because the Pulse nightclub shooter had occasionally attended services there. Our election cycle, the attacks on cultural difference and decency by the right, and the legitimization of hate groups by the mainstream media has resulted in empowering those who believe that being American is synonymous with being Christian and white. There are obviously no easy answers to what’s going on in our world, but if you’re looking for something to read to help put this into context, I recommend Arsalan Iftikhar’s slim volume, Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps our Enemies and Threatens our Freedoms, which deftly tackles this hefty topic. As its title states, the book explores the way Islamophobia is deployed by the media and the political class to demonize Muslims. One of Iftikhar’s central claims is that this kind of rhetorical violence and causal bigotry has come to be accepted in way that would not be palatable should the targets of such attacks have been part of other marginalized communities. In other words, the social, cultural, and political climate of our country is such that it’s open season on Muslims. When politicians or pundits make Islamophobic claims, Iftikhar notes, they are very rarely called on the carpet for their bigotry, xenophobia, and racism. In fact, the ironic and defining characteristic current Islamophobia is that it isn’t any of those things according to those who regularly mobilize such rhetoric.

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Suzanne Phenis

Good but Angry

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2016

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I learned a lot from this book, but his tone seemed a little too angry at times.

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