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An Ideology of Miseducation: Countering the Pedagogy of Empire

In the Western tradition of writing about, researching, and representing Islam, Europeans have consistently positioned Muslims as the irrational, fanatic, sexually enticing, and despotic others. This portrayal, as many scholars have argued, has been as much about Western anxieties, fears, and self-doubts as it has about Islam. After 9/11, along with the continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the way images of Islam have been embedded in the American consciousness becomes extremely important to everyday life. With these concerns in mind, we examine the educational practices—defined broadly to include both schooling and media pedagogy—that help construct these ways of seeing.