The 'fighting Islamophobia' books for young adults

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The 'fighting Islamophobia' books for young adults

By Manish Pandey and Levi Jouavel

 

Some of the books analysed in the research / ANNA PERERA, MUHAMMAD KHAN, ALAN GIBBONS

 

A girl being groomed to become a suicide bomber might not sound like the most child-friendly novel.

 

But fiction books about terrorism and radicalisation have been helping children and young adults "resist extremism and Islamophobia" since the 9/11 terror attacks, new research suggests.

 

Nearly 3,000 people were killed and thousands more injured on 11 September 2001. The following month, US forces launched military action in Afghanistan and the "War on Terror" began.

 

A consequence of that, according to Cambridge University's Dr Blanka Grzegorczyk, was Muslim and immigrant communities being "presented by the media as posing a threat to the core of British culture, nationhood and identity".

 

Full Story: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53588018

 

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