Contemporary Islamophobia extends Orientalism’s Sin to all Muslims, not only Arabs.
Evidence
As Sheehi argued: The difference between previous strains of Orientalism and contemporary Islamophobia is that the sins of Arab Muslims are now visited on all Muslims. Now all Muslims are saddled with the failures, irrationalism, and backwardness that Orientalists previously defined as particular to the Semitic Arab culture and history. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 283
Categorization
- DEFINE: Directly answers the reader’s central categorical question: the definable shift from anti-Arab racism to anti-Muslim racism happened by generalizing the stigma from Arabs to all Muslims—so the later ‘Islamophobia’ is anti-Arab racism with its scope widened.
- QUESTION: Bottom of the mechanism chain for the reader: Sheehi names the semantic expansion but not its carriers; which propaganda/legal/media channels performed this generalization?
- XREF: connects to: Contemporary Islamophobia extends Orientalist blame onto all Muslims, not just Arabs — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 271; Contemporary Islamophobia extends the older Arab-specific Orientalist caricatures to all Muslims.; Islamophobia descends directly from Orientalism’s civilizational divide between Islam and the West — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 151 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Contemporary Islamophobia extends the older Arab-specific Orientalist caricatures to all Muslims.
#corroborates(1.00) - Islamophobia descends directly from Orientalism’s civilizational divide between Islam and the West
#expands(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 151 - Islamophobia constructs a stigmatized Muslim identity through dehumanizing stereotypes rooted in Orientalism.
#expands(0.80) — Goleen Samari, Islamophobia and Public Health in the…, 28 - American Orientalism is the living root system that drives Islamophobia.
#corroborates(0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 168 - American Islamophobia rests on homogenizing all Muslims into one monolithic culture.
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