Conservative and liberal Islamophobia are both forms of imperial racism.

Evidence

While right-wing Islamophobia is about exclusion (the removal of symbols of Islam from public life, banning Muslims, and so on), liberal Islamophobia is about inclusion on imperial terms; both are forms of imperial racism. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact, genuinely paradigm-shifting frame: it refuses the standard distinction between naked exclusionary bigotry and well-meaning liberal acceptance, reclassifying both as products of imperial racism differing only in their preferred mechanism.
• XREF: Parallels to liberal colorblind racism scholarship and to the critique of conditional tolerance in the ‘inclusion on imperial terms’ concept.
• SEED: Essay angle: how well-meaning liberal inclusion of marginalized groups can itself reproduce imperial hierarchy, using Islamophobia as the test case.

Related

• Liberal Islamophobia includes Muslims only on imperial terms (similarity 0.90)
• Islamophobia spans the political spectrum and is embedded in empire’s infrastructure (similarity 0.86)
• Conservative and liberal approaches to Islamic extremism share a cultural-racist frame (similarity 0.85)
• Right-wing and liberal Islamophobia both serve imperial racism through exclusion and conditional inclusion. (similarity 0.85)
• Liberal Islamophobia is racist and imperialist despite its gentler rhetoric (similarity 0.85)
• Both conservative and liberal anti-extremism approaches are forms of cultural racism (similarity 0.84)
• The reviewer calls ‘somewhat more provocative, and problematic’ the second half of Kumar’s argument that US Islamophobia is a joint project between conservatives and liberals. (similarity 0.84)
• US Islamophobia has liberal and conservative wings, both imperial (similarity 0.84)
• Liberal-reformist Islamophobia remains imperial racism cloaked in benevolence (similarity 0.83)
• Liberal anti-clash rhetoric remains imperial racism assuming US stewardship of Muslim societies (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Muslim racism remains entrenched despite Muslim inclusion in imperial systems (similarity 0.82)
• Liberal Islamophobia rejects clash rhetoric yet retains imperial paternalism toward Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Liberal Islamophobia rejects blatant rhetoric while instituting the same Muslim racialization policies (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia spans liberal and conservative mainstreams, not just the fringe right (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice (similarity 0.82)