Anti-Muslim racism’s power lies in unexamined assumptions presented as fact.
Evidence
Anti-Muslim racism as an ideology operates in precisely this way. While blatant racism is obvious and recognizable as propaganda, assumptions about Muslim states as misogynist parade as truth statements, as simply how things are. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 264
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Even denial statements about Muslim threat can partially activate anti-Muslim assumptions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 589; Racial homogeneity assumptions enabled sweeping claims about the ‘Muslim mind’ — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 126; Muslim-background critics of Islam can become unwitting validators of Islamophobic discourse. (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Even denial statements about Muslim threat can partially activate anti-Muslim assumptions
#corroborates(0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 589 - Even anti-racist writers inadvertently reproduce racist assumptions through unquestioned premises
#exemplifies(0.85) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 158 - Ordinary citizens voice unexamined Islamophobic assumptions unprompted
#exemplifies(0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 368 - Suspicion of Muslims is based on association rather than evidence
#exemplifies(0.82) - Racial homogeneity assumptions enabled sweeping claims about the ‘Muslim mind’
#exemplifies(0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 126 - Defining Islamophobia as ‘unfounded’ makes its denial subjectively defensible
#corroborates(0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 657 - Islamophobia need not rest on false claims, so debunking accuracy misses the point
#expands(0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 905 - Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race
#exemplifies(0.78) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 583 - Treating Islam as a monolith underlies claims about its inherent unchanging traits.
#exemplifies(0.78) - Racism produces the ignorance that is blamed for generating it
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1222 - Muslim-background critics of Islam can become unwitting validators of Islamophobic discourse.
#exemplifies(0.72)