Critics of empire face danger while its endorsers are rewarded in the West
Evidence
Autophobia—the affliction affecting the person who is both the subject and the object of his own hatred—assumes a more convoluted character when he offers himself as a person in absentia, a pseudonym. The ostensible reason for Ibn Warraq’s anonymity is that were he to reveal his identity his life would be in danger— which is a joke, since the only people in danger in the West are those who openly criticize the criminal atrocities of American empire and European racism. Those who endorse them are, in contrast, rewarded, praised, and published. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 429
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the pattern in The Reluctant Fundamentalist of who gets to speak and who is silenced in the post-9/11 West.
Related
- Safe figures claim mortal danger as political capital. (similarity 0.80)
- Ex-Muslim critics abroad worsen anti-Muslim racism and shield the West. (similarity 0.78)