Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, poet, educator and activist, disrupting ideas of history, race, knowledge and violence. Her poetry performances based on her book Postcolonial Banter have millions of views online and she was the National Roundhouse Poetry Slam runner-up in 2017. Suhaiymah has written for the Guardian and gal-dem and her work has featured across radio and TV stations. She has been commissioned to write plays by theatres including the Royal Court.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Not what it is but what it does
1. A history of race-making: Inventing `the Muslim threat¿
2. Never-ending pillaging in the name of international security
3. Who is safer when the nation is secure?
4. Racist prediction as public duty: Prevent
5. Whose parallel lives? Which British values?
6. The revolution must be counter-extremist: Co-opting resistance
7. Compromising Islam for patriotism: A secular state? A Western Islam?
8. Destroying life and hoarding wealth in the name of border security
9. The feminist and queer-friendly West? The patriarchal rest?
10. Islamophobiäs beneficiaries
Conclusion: A safe world on our own terms
