Anti-Muslim training films frame Muslim moderation claims as deception

Evidence

The essential message of this film, again, was that American Muslims are planning to infiltrate and dominate America, and so any claims by Muslims to be “moderate” are part of a devious pattern of deception. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 32

Categorization

• XREF: The rhetorical move of dismissing any counter-evidence as deception parallels The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s reading of how suspicion inverts every assertion. — connects to: Anti-Muslim propaganda videos drew mainstream security officials as participants; Right-wing anti-Muslim propaganda is screened to police as official training — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 695