Court legitimation converts false anti-Muslim claims into citable authority

Evidence

The so-called expertise recognized and legitimated by the court as such becomes a text within a formal legal process, even though the actual assertions are false. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 390 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The hold these instruments have on the mind is increased by the institutions built around them. For every Orientalist, quite literally, there is a support system of staggering power, considering the ephemerality of the myths that Orientalism propagates. This system now culminates in the very institutions of the state. To write about the Arab Oriental world, therefore, is to write with the authority of a nation, and not with the affirmation of a strident ideology but with the unquestioning certainty of absolute truth backed by absolute force. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 777 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Reading judicial opinions as cultural productions exposes races’ contested origins — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 364; Litigants weaponized court proceedings to spread anti-Muslim racist tropes — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 345; Courts confer epistemic authority on false Islamophobic claims — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 390 (+5 more)

Related

• Courts confer epistemic authority on false Islamophobic claims (similarity 0.86)
• Court hearings give Islamophobic falsehoods official standing that spreads to other cases (similarity 0.84)
• Institutional state backing converts Orientalist myths into authoritative truth claims (similarity 0.81)
• Litigants weaponized court proceedings to spread anti-Muslim racist tropes (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Courts confer epistemic authority on false Islamophobic claims #corroborates (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 390
• Institutional state backing converts Orientalist myths into authoritative truth claims #corroborates (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 777
• Courts legitimize treating an entire religious community as suspicious #expands (0.82)
• Public anti-Muslim opinion legitimizes state racial projects against a religious minority #expands (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 880