Blaming Islam for oppression omits Western support for repressive regimes

Evidence

I would contend that the fixation with Islam offered by Islamophobia provides a useful cover, a means of evading the numerous specific local, regional, and global issues that cause diverse and otherwise antagonistic solidarities to emerge under the rallying banner of Islam. Thus, although Islamophobia fetishizes Islam as the cause and explanation of violence, the phenomenon of anti-Muslim prejudice serves a useful purpose for Islamophobes in screening out the tortuous results of decades of geopolitical meddling by the West across large swathes of the world where Muslims are in the majority. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 513 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

One of the difficulties involved in discussing the threats that Muslims face today is the tendency of those having the conversations to change the subject. For example, there are very few conversations about Islam today which do not ultimately end up touching upon the type of clothing that many Muslim women choose to wear. Instead of focusing on Donald Trump’s Muslim travel bans, or the meteoric rise of right-wing white supremacist neo-Nazi groups in virtually every industrialized nation, many Westerners still cannot lower their obsessive gaze from female Muslim religious attire. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 356 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Native informants trace Muslim women’s oppression to Islam’s alleged lack of critical thought — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 476; Native informants frame Western freedoms as universally liberating versus Islam’s oppressions — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 478; Western claims that Islam blocks democracy mask Islamophobic motives — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 299 (+4 more)

Related

• Western women’s post-feminist agency is constructed against the figure of the oppressed Muslim woman. (similarity 0.87)
• Islamophobia functions as a screen hiding Western geopolitical responsibility (similarity 0.87)
• Native informants frame Western freedoms as universally liberating versus Islam’s oppressions (similarity 0.87)
• Western discourse displaces Muslim threats onto obsessing over women’s clothing (similarity 0.85)
• Neoconservative discourse exploits women’s rights to mark Islam as foreign. (similarity 0.83)
• Western claims that Islam blocks democracy mask Islamophobic motives (similarity 0.83)
• Erasing non-Western feminist activity constitutes a silencing Islamophobic move (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobic discourse weaponizes Muslim women’s oppression to mark Islam as foreign and threatening (similarity 0.82)
• Practices Westerners blame on Islam often predate Islam or are geographically limited. (similarity 0.82)
• Changing European society, not Muslim women, drove the oppression image (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia discourse weaponizes Muslim women’s oppression for a neoconservative agenda (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial administrators framed Islam as inherently degrading women. (similarity 0.81)
• Depicting feminism as Western-only erases Muslim feminist movements (similarity 0.81)
• Native informants trace Muslim women’s oppression to Islam’s alleged lack of critical thought (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is hardest to debate when feminists adopt it. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia functions as a screen hiding Western geopolitical responsibility #corroborates (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 513
• Western discourse displaces Muslim threats onto obsessing over women’s clothing #corroborates (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 356
• Erasing non-Western feminist activity constitutes a silencing Islamophobic move #expands (0.55)