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Abstract:

Cultural supremacism or shared ordinariness?

In multireligious societies like Australia, what should be the purpose of critiquing Islamophobia? Is it to reassure anxious white Australians that there is nothing to fear from real Islam, and that rhetoric about its supposed intrinsic violence, sexism or hostility to other religions is misinformed and racist?

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