Manufacturing of the Green Scare: The rise of Islamophobic US foreign policy after 9/11

Abstract

The coming of the new millennium brought several changes to US foreign policymaking. 9/11 attacks drove the US administration towards chasing terrorist organizations; such as, Al- Qaeda which was responsible for the damage and aftermath of 9/11. However, in view of the events following 9/11, it became clear that the US administration cast Islam, as US first enemy. In fact, portraying Islam as the Green Scare, after the fall of the ex- USSR (the Red Scare), gives a clear interpretation that the US administration has relied on a manufactured foreign policy of fear of the new rising enemy; namely, Islam. This; in fact, gives the right to the Americans to proceed with a dangerous US interventionism policy. Moreover, exposing the US manufacturing of an Islamic enemy is imperative to understand that the US foreign policy has shifted towards toward a more rigorous, Islamophobic trend by targeting Islam and Muslims in the US, and throughout the world. The present paper attempts to highlight the facet of the US foreign policy after 9/11 attacks. It analyzes the different strategies used by the US administration in manufacturing of the Green Scare as an agenda to target Islam and Muslims inside the US, and throughout the world. In addition, it illustrates how the US foreign policy took an Islamophobic trend toward Islam and Muslims.