This overlap of inside and outside, an artifact of global immigration and modern regimes of citizenship, is what drives Islamophobia and imbues it with missionary zeal. Pastor Jones must remind America that Muslims, even the ones who live here with us, as us, are really Them. Mayor O’Reilly, in response, must remind Pastor Jones that “we’re all Americans.”

QUESTION: How does this framework extend to other immigrant groups whose insider/outsider status provokes similar anxieties?

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 698