Sadly, when it comes to the topic of Shari'ah, the measure of a book’s success is merely that it leave you with an impression of Muslim humanity. Rarely is a word so frequently used and yet so commonly misunderstood.
Islamophobic discourse rarely changes in any meaningful way; indeed, it remains quite similar to the anti-Semitism it disingenuously claims to have foresworn. But superficially, Islamophobia rapidly mutates, sniffing out whatever Arabic words its untalented bigots can find—throwing them against the wall, and seeing which most creeps out the mainstream. “Hijab.” “Minaret.” “Taqiyya.”
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