Dr. Hatem Bazian's article discusses the anti-Iran and anti-Shia sentiment, which serves as a foundational element of a global Islamophobia industry designed to support Western imperial interests. Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Western powers and media began portraying Iran as an existential civilizational threat to justify maintaining geopolitical control. This discourse utilizes a "Good Muslim/Bad Muslim" binary to distinguish between compliant allies and those who resist Western hegemony. The text further asserts that the Israeli Hasbara network reinforces these narratives to reframe regional conflicts as battles between Western civilization and Islamic barbarism. Ultimately, these systematic portrayals provide the ideological authorization for military action and state-sponsored violence against Muslim-majority entities. This structural Islamophobia is presented not as random prejudice, but as a calculated tool of empire and political management.
