Following an increase in terrorist attacks in western and non-western countries, there has been a steady rise in Islamophobia, defined as prejudice and xenophobia towards Muslims, in Australia and across the world, as well as increasing government measures to Counter Violent Extremism (CVE). In this article, Dr Susie Latham writes that parents of Muslim children are increasingly fearful of excessive monitoring through CVE measures in Australia, where their children’s words and actions are likely to be scrutinised more carefully than those of others as Islamophobia is increasingly institutionalised, including through training to detect the radicalisation of young people to violent extremism.
Dr Susie Latham is an Adjunct postdoctoral fellow at Curtin University, a member of the Challenging Racism Project at Western Sydney University, an executive member of the Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim studies and the co-founder of Voices against Bigotry. Her PhD research was on challenging Western stereotypes of Muslim women.
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