ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the practices of temporal othering that emerged in 1989 played out through democracy promotion and Democracy Promotion at a time when a Muslim other once again became highly visible. It describes that the incipiently violent othering practices and teleological narrative of history that emerged in 1989 can be traced in media and political discourse. The chapter discusses these othering representations that have become the focus of political struggle on the part of British Muslims. As such, there have been attempts to disrupt some of the narratives that suggest Muslims are somehow foreign, by producing new representations. The chapter demonstrates the well-intentioned efforts of the foreign and commonwealth office to frame othering practices that include British Muslims. The Art of Integration exhibition explicitly sets out to disrupt tabloid images of British Muslims and to deny that there is any incompatibility between Britishness and Islam.
