Abstract
The Obama administration acknowledged that securitization of Islam was wrong and that it threatened America and world peace and stability. They decided to desecuritize Islam and bring it back to the abode of politics, although it remained so only in discourse. With the election of President Trump, Islam and Muslims have been resecuritized like never before. The election of President Trump gave a platform to alternative, far-right, conspiracy-driven pundits and media, who determine the US foreign policy today.
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Notes
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Political Scientists’ statement on Donald Trump https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7l0lh4nmE3OSkpCWjJJNGVoNXc/view (last accessed: August 17, 2017).
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Heraa Hashmi, a Muslim student at the University of Colorado, has made a list of the Muslim authorities who have condemned terrorism, “Worldwide Muslims Condemn List”. She updates it frequently and you can reach it as a document at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e8BjMW36CMNc4-qc9UNQku0blstZSzp5FMtkdlavqzc/edit#gid=0 (last accessed: August 17, 2017).
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Shipoli, E.A. (2018). Desecuritization and Resecuritization of Islam in US Foreign Policy: The Obama and the Trump Administrations. In: Islam, Securitization, and US Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71111-9_7
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