The desperate desire to be 'European'
Albanian internalized Islamophobia is so normalized that it goes unnoticed.
|2023.02.14
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Internalized Islamophobia has become so normalized in public discourse that it frequently goes unacknowledged and unchallenged.
Much of Europe functions on a default that Europeans are white and that social hierarchies built on race are an exclusive peculiarity of the U.S.
It is often heterosexual and secular men who are the loudest representatives of internalized Islamophobia in mainstream Albanian discourse.
Adem Ferizaj
Adem Ferizaj is a PhD student at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS University of London.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.