Status Updates From The End of Two Illusions: I...

The dialectical fetishization of “Islam and the West”—not just “Islam” and “the West” but “Islam and the West” as a unit—survived the work of Said and his followers and continued undetected as the single most potent falsifying binary of our time.

“Islam and the West” is a very recent historical construct, born of a particular colonial project.

With the outbreak of COVID-19, Islamophobia has exposed its deeper xenophobic roots.