During the 19th and 20th centuries...

During the 19th and 20th centuries, stagnation and passivity in the Islamic world allayed the concerns of anti-Islamic groups. Since then, the West was in a state of aggression, with Muslims retreating and recoiling from strongholds.

After the revival and restoration of the identity of the Islamic world, which began in the late twentieth century, especially with the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the anti-Islamic feeling and confrontation with Muslims in the West gradually began to take on new dimensions. The beginning of the 21st century coincided with 9/11. This incident and its consequences spread anti-Islamic views and Islamophobia in the Western world.

The events of September 11, 2001, the Madrid train station explosion in March 2004 and the bomb explosion of the London Underground station in 2005 were quickly attributed to Muslims and were presented as a symbol of Muslim behavior and culture. The wave of anti-Islamic currents in Western societies, like other xenophobic and racist currents, took on the color and smell of violence.

Numerous incidents took place in American society and European societies, the victims of which were Muslims, especially those who followed Islamic appearances and rituals. During this period, and especially in the days following the events mentioned, hundreds of criminal acts were committed against Muslims, mosques, and possibly belonging to Muslims. These acts of violence in some cases even led to the killing of Muslims in these communities.

Such anti-Islamic sentiments and actions were not limited to the communities. These issues have been reflected in the speeches and stands of political officials and religious leaders and films, books, and the press of these communities. Opposition to Islam through an attack on the integrity of Islam as the main problem of the world and the introduction of Islam as extremism, today has a serious and influential presence in Western societies and even the media influencing world public opinion.

From this perspective, Muslims are the main culprits in all the conflicts in which Muslims are involved. It is noteworthy that while anti-Jewish views are presented as anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic views are called Islamophobia, which in this term, problems are attributed to Islam and these appellations are considered a kind of value connotation.