ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author examines how Islamophobia seeks to encroach into spaces, nooks and crannies where Muslims have formed a subjectivity that exists for itself and not for the benefit of a non-Muslim point of view. She argues that Islamophobia's broader repertoires all impact to various degrees upon her white participants' mundane encounters and 'grounded and often fluid experiences and responses to' Muslims 'in local contexts' and 'real, lived environments'. Being affected by Muslimness was also evident among non-Anglo participants but emerges as a condition and symptom of Australia's wider racial structure. When participants express concerns about 'Islamism', radicalization, terrorism and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, one can see how such concerns either refuse to engage, or are ignorant of, global inter-connections. Islamophobia manifests across multiple allegiances and relations, in the variable and fallible dimensions of human sociality.
