The New Crusades
Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims

Beydoun focuses less on the traits and frameworks of global Islamophobia and more on the lived experiences of Muslims around the world in this book. It’s my understanding that he covers the former in his previous publication. I found this book very moving and informative as it described the layers o......more

Khaled Beydoun does a great job of documenting Islamophobia around the world and analysing it through a critical lens, both in books for posterity as well as on social media for current action.......more

Beydoun puts together a book that showcases many of the global lived experiences of Muslims, highlighting how deeply Islamophobia has cut into and across nations. Unlike his first book, which focused on the American context, I found this one more aligned with my own thoughts, because it ties Islamop......more

I didn’t finish this book, I stopped after chapter 3. As a Muslim reading this book as research for my poetry collection on Indian/global Islamophobia, I wanted to like this book. The writer comes off as arrogant, deeply condescending and infantilizing. I hate the way he writes about the people he i......more

This is a phenomenal book. Reading through the news, either online or in print, it's easy not to realize how connected and pervasive anti-Muslim attacks have become. Connecting countries, political figures, fringe elements and more, the author truly makes connections that show a horrifying pattern w......more