Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim

Evidence

From the beginning, Orientalism has been committed to political projects that require the dehumanization of Muslims, especially Muslim men, who have been “linked to elements in Western society (delinquents, the insane, women, the poor) sharing an identity best described as lamentably alien.” In addition to alienating Muslims from the human community, these mythologies have helped to validate numerous colonial and imperial adventures. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 44 (#expands, via linked claim)

In Algeria, where European settlers are numerous and where the territorial militia lost no time in enrolling the postman, the nurse and the grocer in the repressive system, the men who directed the struggle faced an absolutely new situation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 187 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial conquest history planted rape fantasies in European dreams about Algerian women; Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance; Colonial doctors interpreted Algerian pain as animal-like and undifferentiated (+30 more)

Related

• Colonial conquest history planted rape fantasies in European dreams about Algerian women (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalist Muslim dehumanization legitimizes colonial and imperial adventures (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance. (similarity 0.82)
• Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial racism led some humiliated Jews to identify with their humiliators against Algerians (similarity 0.81)
• Unveiled Algerian women unsettled European women by excelling at Western femininity (similarity 0.81)
• The European’s impulse to unveil Algerian women is an act of possession (similarity 0.81)
• The belief that Muslims had different needs enabled colonial indifference. (similarity 0.80)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.80)
• In European dreams rape of an Algerian woman is preceded by tearing the veil. (similarity 0.80)
• Empire served as a dumping ground for Europe’s undesirables and repressed desires (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial administration targeted starving women first with anti-veil propaganda. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial doctors interpreted Algerian pain as animal-like and undifferentiated (similarity 0.80)
• The Western image of Muslims dehumanizes them to enable colonial rule (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Orientalist Muslim dehumanization legitimizes colonial and imperial adventures #expands (0.85) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 44
• Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 187