Jamal Awil

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Muslim fertility is framed as external warfare in Islamophobic discourse. [definitional]

Ibrahim wrote an article called "Islam's 'Baby Jihad'" in direct response to Pew Research Center (2015). Baby jihad paints the fertility of Muslim women as a form of warfare against the West. Unlike the internal threat of moral decay from within Western society, baby jihad is an external threat linked to Islamophobia.

DEFINE: Defines 'baby jihad' as a rhetorical concept that recasts Muslim women's fertility as a demographic weapon against the West. Builds on: "White nationalists weaponize demographic fears about Muslim fertility"

Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, loc. 27