Changez’s secular framing makes his critique palatable to liberal Westerners

Evidence

“I would argue that the use of these images [of Muslim women in religious attire] has also been bad for us, in the countries of the West where they circulate, because of the deadening effect they have on our capacity to appreciate the complexity and diversity of Muslim women’s lives—as human beings,” said Professor Abu-Lughod. “Did we expect once ‘free’ from the Taliban that they would go ‘back’ to belly-shirts or dust off their Chanel suits?” — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 394 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Liberal reading habits themselves can fabricate Muslim difference; Circulating veiled-woman imagery deadens Westerners’ sense of Muslim women’s diversity — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 394

Related

• Circulating veiled-woman imagery deadens Westerners’ sense of Muslim women’s diversity (similarity 0.86)
• Using Muslims as hypothetical archetypes reinscribed their liminality in public imagination (similarity 0.86)
• Sexual objectification of Muslim women fuses desire and military intervention fantasy (similarity 0.82)
• Changing European society, not Muslim women, drove the oppression image (similarity 0.81)
• Western women’s post-feminist agency is constructed against the figure of the oppressed Muslim woman. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Liberal reading habits themselves can fabricate Muslim difference #expands (0.70)
• Circulating veiled-woman imagery deadens Westerners’ sense of Muslim women’s diversity #qualifies (0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 394