Attempting to homogenize the Muslim diaspora is itself a tactic of Islamophobia

Evidence

As Amin Malak reminds us, no single work can be representative of the vast and varied Muslim diaspora across the world; indeed, to try to homogenize it is one of the tactics of Islamophobia. In the same way, no national or regional experience can be taken to stand for anything greater than itself. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 61

If this book has a numerical bias in favor of texts about or emanating from the South Asian context, it should be remembered that it is not claiming to offer a comprehensive overview of novels by or about Muslims. As Amin Malak reminds us, no single work can be representative of the vast and varied Muslim diaspora across the world; indeed, to try to homogenize it is one of the tactics of Islamophobia. In the same way, no national or regional experience can be taken to stand for anything greater than itself. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 61

Categorization

• DEFINE: Supplies a working criterion: homogenizing ‘the Muslim world’ is itself an Islamophobic move — useful boundary for judging which novels contest rather than reinforce the fear.
• XREF: Directly useful for Hamid and Naqvi readings — their irreducible particularity is the counter-move to homogenization. — connects to: When Islam itself is deemed the problem, assimilation demands its excision. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296; Islamophobic polemic openly prescribes demographic-based ethnic cleansing — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 51; American Islamophobia rests on homogenizing all Muslims into one monolithic culture.
• SEED: Angle: frame the thesis around novels that refuse representativeness as the defining anti-Islamophobic gesture.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 61