Anti-Muslim activists frame restrictions on Muslims as defending liberty.

Evidence

The rise of anti-Muslim propaganda in the United States has connections with right-wing activists, whose attacks on Islam are often well funded. A recent report by People for the American Way has documented the menu of tactics that is often used by anti-Muslim extremists. In addition to claiming that Islam is not a religion and that Muslims have no First Amendment rights, these ideologues use misinformation to argue that all Muslims are dangerous, and that liberty must be defended by taking freedoms away from Muslims. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 29

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the loaded rhetorical move: claiming ‘liberty must be defended by taking freedoms away from Muslims’ — the paradox at the heart of the frightened subject’s logic.
• XREF: connects to: Antibusing activists reframed opposition to desegregation as defense of individual liberty against state coercion. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 58; White supremacist groups receive civil-liberty protections denied to Muslims. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 606; Anti-sharia litigation frames mosques as terrorist-breeding sites to justify exclusion. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 372 (+1 more)