Abstract

Gender issues and especially women have been a focal point in the literature of Islamophobia Studies. Less of a focus is the role of the oppressive side, patriarchic structures that profit from these relations of exploitation. This chapter is a investigation into desires and projections of dominant white patriarchic structures that discusses Islamophobic discourses from a psychoanalytical perspective. Two seemingly different, but also similar cases on white male supremacy are discussed in this chapter, the slogan of ‘White Sharia’ in white nationalist circles and blogpost production, and a critical analysis of an interrogation of terrorism suspects following the largest police operation in postwar Austria called ‘Operation Luxor’. Both discourses are chosen as one represents fringe discourses on the far-right, while the other is a local manifestation of a hegemonic discourse that has emerged in the course of the global war on terror within the last two decades on a global scale. In this chapter, I argue that the imaginations in the discourses on Muslims reveal the desires and fears of white male dominant patriarchy that projects them onto an imagined hypersexual, violent Muslim manliness.