This ongoing dialogue between the state and its polity regarding Muslims by way of law, official rhetoric, and war-on-terror policy is central to this book’s framing of Islamophobia. Beyond defining Islamophobia as merely irrational fear or hatred held by a caricatured bloc or demographic, or as deviant violence committed by individual actors, this book’s definition is complex, multidimensional, and anchored in law and government policy.

DEFINE: Redefines Islamophobia as a multidimensional phenomenon rooted in state law, official rhetoric, and war-on-terror policy rather than mere individual prejudice or deviant violence. Builds on: "Law authorizes and executes Islamophobia through state and citizen action"

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 83