Abstract

Islamophobic alarms over shariah have resounded in the United States during the second decade of the twenty-first century. These alarms perpetuate the notion of a clash of civilizations, pitting Islam versus the West. Instead of discussing the clash of civilizations thesis, however, this article proposes that a clash of temporalities has been constructed by a “shariah scare industry.” Focusing on the Center for Security Policy and Nonie Darwish, this article discloses the shariah scare argument that Muslims and non-Muslims experience time in two contrasting manners, what I call frozen past time and ominous future time.

Keywords: Islam in the United States, Islamophobia, Shariah

How to Cite:

Fink, S., (2018) “The Shariah Scare Industry and the Clash of Temporalities”, Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies: Mathal archive 5(1), 1-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/2168-538X.1092

Rights: Copyright © 2018 Steven Fink