Islamophobia and Acts of Violence: The Targeting and Victimization of American Muslims is a collection of perspectives by authors from a variety of academic disciplines such as legal studies, communication studies, political science, and criminology on the subject of Anti-Muslim hate crimes.Stereotypes of middle-eastern people had been part of the American landscape for decades prior to 9/11, and this act of terrorism intensified American misconceptions of the already marginalized community and led to criminal victimization of persons believed to be members of the Muslim community.This volume seeks to bring various aspects of Islamophobic attitudes and behaviors, from microaggressions that reflect bigotry to bias motivated criminal acts, commonly referred to as hate crimes, to a broad audience. This volume could also serve as a supplemental text for educators who teach in areas such as ethnoviolence, hate crimes and terrorism, criminology, sociology, immigration studies, political science, world religions, especially middle eastern studies, and other related courses.

Chapter 1 - The Nature and Scope of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim Hate Crime inContemporary AmericaCarolyn Turpin-PetrosinoChapter 2 - The Structure, Impact, and Power of the American Islamophobia NetworkZainab Arain & Abbas BarzegarChapter 3 - Ripples of Hate: Measuring How Hate Crimes Hurt MoreRandy BlazakChapter 4 - Attacking Muslims in North America - An Empirical Analysis of Terrorist Attacksand Plots from 1970-2016Brian Nussbaum & Andrew VitekChapter 5 - The Victimization of Muslim American Women and the Challenges of ImperialFeminism in Comparative ContextEngy AbdelkaderChapter 6 - An Opinion: What the Qur'an Says that Disqualifies the Perspectives of MilitantRadical MuslimsJabbar Al-ObaidiChapter 7 - Trends and Catalysts of Anti-Muslim Hate Crime and Bigoted Attitudes:A Multi-Decade AnalysisBrian LevinChapter 8 - Conclusions: Veils Uncovered and Veils that RemainCarolyn Turpin-Petrosino