The term's thrust into mainstream sources wasn't a staggering event; it's popularity increased because of the resurgence in the post Cold War and post 9/11 induced fraudulent nationalism. ... Cainkar provides objective and detailed statistics to back up the insecurity experienced by Arab Americans in the years following 9/11. (4) A paramount theme in Cainkar's work is that the abuse Muslim and non-Muslim Arabs did not occur in in a nutshell and due to the fact that the stereotype of Arabs as a murderous "other" had validated the violence of war in the media in the...

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