Review: The Muslims Are Coming!

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The Muslims Are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror by Arun Kundnani is a book that explores the domestic fronts of the war on terror in two countries - the United States and the United Kingdom. In this timely book, Arun Kundnani succinctly argues that radicalization became the lens through which the Western societies viewed the Muslim population by the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Without mincing words, the author stated that the political act of labeling certain forms of violence as terrorism is usually a radicalized act. He also said that by using tens of billions of dollars a year to fighting a domestic threat of terrorist violence that is largely imagined, the US government has neglected the challenge of creating a genuinely peaceful society.

Consider the nine chapters included in the book: An Ideal Enemy, The Politics of Anti-Extremism, The Roots of Liberal Rage, The Myth of Radicalization, Hearts and Minds, No Freedom, Postboom, Twenty-First-Century Crusaders, and Dream Not of Other Worlds. The chapters are well thought-out, and the book is well-researched. The Muslims are Coming! is based on three years of research by the author in both the US and the UK. The research was supported by the Institute of Race Relations in London and the Open Society Foundations in New York.