An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt

ISBN-13: 9781509530649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 204 str.

Pascal Bruckner

Opis

Islamophobia is a term that has existed since the 19th century. But in recent decades, argues Pascal Bruckner in his controversial new book, this term has become a weapon used to silence criticism of Islam. It allows those who brandish the term in the name of Islam to freeze the latter, making reform difficult.

Recenzje

In the worldwide debate over the Islamist movement, nobody has been more incisive than Pascal Bruckner, and nobody has been more influential. He set the terms of the debate many years ago, and he continues to do so. He is a brilliant writer, and An Imaginary Racism is a characteristically brilliant book.  
Paul Berman, author of The Flight of the Intellectuals

Provocative and well–argued, An Imaginary Racism reveals how the concept of Islamophobia has been politicized and distorted, and what this says about the West today. An important work for our times.  
Richard J. Golsan, Texas A&M University

Spis treści

• A Note on the Text
• Introduction: A Semantic Revolution
• Part I
• The Fabrication of a Crime of Opinion
• 1. The Disappearance of Race, the Proliferation of Racists
• 2. A Weapon of Mass Intimidation
• 3. The Miracle of Transubstantiation
• Part II
• The Left Suffering from Denial
• 4. Islamo–Leftism, or the Conjunction of Resentments
• 5. An Unnatural Marriage
• 6. The Victim′s Guilt, the Murderer′s Innocence
• Part III
• Are Muslims the Equivalent of Jews?
• 7. From the Principle of Equivalence to the Principle of Substitution
• 8. Exterminations Galore
• 9. The Jew, An Accursed White
• 10. A Semantic Racket
• Part IV
• Are We Guilty of Existing?
• 11. The Criminalization of Reticence
• 12. Minorities, Protection or Prison?
• 13. The Racism of the Anti–Racists
• 14. Should the West be De–Colonized?
• Part V
• What is God′s Future?
• 15. Is the War on Terror a Sham?
• 16. Resistance or Penitence
• 17. Western Values are not Negotiable
• 18. Weary of God
• 19. The Grandeur and the Tragedy of Tolerance
• Epilogue: On History as a Warning
• Notes

O autorze

Pascal Bruckner is the best–selling author of many books including The Tyranny of Guilt, Perpetual Euphoria and The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse.