Editing Islamophobia (section)

=== Movies ===
[[File:Jews Say No to Genocide-Hollywood Protest for a Ceasefire in Gaza.jpg|thumb|Pro-Palestinian protest in Los Angeles against the [[Gaza war|war in Gaza]] and Hollywood's role in dehumanizing Muslims, November 2023]]
Throughout the twentieth century, Muslim characters were portrayed in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] often negatively and with [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] stereotypes visualising them as being "uncivilised". Since the [[Post-9/11]] era, in addition to these tropes, a securitization of Muslims; portraying them as a threat to the [[Western world]], have drastically increased in movie depictions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Senanayake |first=Harsha |date=2021 |title=Hollywood and Wicked Other: The Identity Formation of "Western Us" Versus "Muslim Others" |journal=Open Political Science |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=64–67 |doi=10.1515/openps-2021-0007 |s2cid=231920684 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

There are growing instances of Islamophobia in Hindi cinema, or [[Bollywood]], in films such as ''[[Aamir (2008 film)|Aamir]]'' (2008), ''[[New York (2009 film)|New York]]'' (2009) and ''[[My Name is Khan]]'' (2010), which corresponds to a growing anti-minorities sentiment that followed the resurgence of the [[Hindu right]].<ref>Gabriel, Karen, "[https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/5371904/SAJ_Paper__Sent_.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Country_in_the_City_The_Bye-lanes_of.pdf&Expires=1595688602&Signature=fsxwAJGfDzqhdLuX1LkehpIdphorrpgqurLHm0dI5J1efjT3e4fjwJNGfG9B1OucITPtwIzar9QQjOufCTI1~eimaFweW~4YSlrOzHFwreVN8-rCijwVgXhYd6E0LolmhvHMVMsJr8Ga0StJXyPq8EcpezZ7VFiZXmPZBDQiI9uXFXoNvTgWO4kBNic7JIroeRsA6zI0t8lRR2jgt5zzY2hUrEAXzeNqP1oVuTEXD3ET1ZdF~Gnzi1ev8joS4U4tce-aWIXfhHFIQk7ojm8v2F2fGklVcGrUbzXrOCT7814HJ5YIrqe55KyxyYRvQcNINuBjoq3ppN~Q4j-PBemsPA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA The Country in the City: The Bye-lanes of Identity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725135530/https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/5371904/SAJ_Paper__Sent_.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Country_in_the_City_The_Bye-lanes_of.pdf&Expires=1595688602&Signature=fsxwAJGfDzqhdLuX1LkehpIdphorrpgqurLHm0dI5J1efjT3e4fjwJNGfG9B1OucITPtwIzar9QQjOufCTI1~eimaFweW~4YSlrOzHFwreVN8-rCijwVgXhYd6E0LolmhvHMVMsJr8Ga0StJXyPq8EcpezZ7VFiZXmPZBDQiI9uXFXoNvTgWO4kBNic7JIroeRsA6zI0t8lRR2jgt5zzY2hUrEAXzeNqP1oVuTEXD3ET1ZdF~Gnzi1ev8joS4U4tce-aWIXfhHFIQk7ojm8v2F2fGklVcGrUbzXrOCT7814HJ5YIrqe55KyxyYRvQcNINuBjoq3ppN~Q4j-PBemsPA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA |date=25 July 2020 }}", ''South Asian Journal Special Issue Cinema in South Asia'', July – September 2010 pp. 53–64.</ref><ref>Gabriel, Karen and P. K. Vijayan, "Orientalism, Terrorism and Bombay Cinema", (2012) ''Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Issue on Orientalism and Terrorism'', July 2012 volume 48, number 3, pp. 299–310. {{doi|10.1080/17449855.2012.678744}}.</ref>