British poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan explains what Islamophobia does to people and how it ties into wider structures of exploitation, racial oppression, and violence.

Islamophobia affects millions of people across the globe — from Muslim women in the West who are told how to dress and young men who are targeted by police officers to refugees who are detained or killed for trying to cross national borders.

Even though Islamophobia permeates all aspects of life, we mostly talk about it as an individual bias held by a small number of right-wing nationalists.

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a British spoken word poet and educator who writes about race, gender, knowledge, and what it means to be a Muslim woman in England.

In Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia, an edition of the Pluto Press Outspoken series, Manzoor-Khan explains what systemic Islamophobia does to people and how we can start uprooting it.