Jurnal Global dan Strategis
ISSN 1907-9729
Vol. 7 / No. 2 / Published : 2013-07
Order : 1, and page :159 - 167
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Original Article :
“i am checked, therefore i am”: a war on terror and muslims in airports since 9/11
Author :
- Nath Aldalala’a*1
- Associate professor College of Media and Mass Communication, Dubai International Academy, Uni Emirat Arab
Abstract :
Since the 9/11 attacks in New York, Muslim identity has become both highly visible and under critical scrutiny. International airports have become a place in which the war on terror is enacted on daily basis. The stringent security measures associated with international travel since 9/11 continually seek to conflate being Muslim with being a terrorist, to underpin discursively constructed definitions of terrorism. The fears generated by these representations of Muslims sanctions the attrition of civil liberties. This strategy of panic created by Western governments, beside the media frenzy, then fosters a general complacency in their societies. This article argues that further actions taken to implement and authenticate such strategies of panic produce a system of dogmatic control and a system of misrepresentation of Muslims in particular. Specifically, the introduction of Scanning Machines in airports, as a tool in the war on terror, instils the notion that the enemy is identifiable. Muslim identity is not pronounced based on what the Muslim truly is, but based on this mechanism of classification for further and extra checking: “Muslim checked, therefore the Muslim is.”
Keyword :
airport, war on terror, Islam, representation of Muslims,
References :
Martin Amis,(2008) associate professor College of Media and Mass Communication, Dubai International Academy, Uni Emirat Arab London : Jonathan Cape
Christopher Hitchens,(2007) God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything New York : Warner
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