Abstract
This chapter explores the place of Islam in US politics, from history to the current times. It analyzes the encounter of Americans with Muslims and the relation of Islam, Muslims, and America during and after the Cold War; how American foreign policy is conducted, with reference to Islam; and finally, it introduces the campaign of the securitization of Islam in US politics and Islamophobia, prior to going into discourse analysis of US presidents.
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A group of 80 literary agents have released an open call for submission from Muslim authors after Donald Trump was elected the US president. More by Antonia Blumberg, Dozens Of Literary Agents Release Open Call From Muslim Authors, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/open-call-muslim-authors_us_589b9b79e4b04061313b778e
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According to Islamic beliefs the Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, but it was not codified during the Prophet’s time. The Qur’an was written only after the Prophet’s death, by his close friends who memorized the Qur’anic verses from Him. The revelations that came to the Prophet were taught by Him to the people in his closest circle, and after his death the verses that were unanimously agreed on were codified into the book that we know today as the Qur’an.
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Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg compiled a wonderful manuscript on Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy, where they show how Islam is portrayed and how Islamophobia is propagated in American mainstream media.
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Shipoli, E.A. (2018). Islam in US Politics. In: Islam, Securitization, and US Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71111-9_4
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