2006/11/01 by Scott Poynting, Victoria Mason · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography #Racism #Ideology #Terrorism #Adversary #Ethnic group #Economic Justice #Political science #Criminology #State (computer science) #Spanish Civil War #Sociology #Law #Gender studies #Politics
paper · doi:10.1080/07256860600934973
openalex publication_date 2006/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Since 11 September 2001, Muslim minorities have experienced intensive “othering” in “Western” countries, above all in those US-led anglophone nations which invaded Afghanistan and Iraq to prosecute their “war on terror”. This paper examines the cases of Britain and Australia, where whole communities of Muslims have been criminalised as “evil” and a “fifth column” enemy within by media, politicians, the security services and the criminal justice system. Although constituted by disparate ethnic groups, the targeted communities in each of these nations have experienced similar treatment in the State's anti-terrorist measures, as well as ideological responses and everyday racism, making comparable the two cases.