Culture talk legitimates both terrorist violence and Western drone strikes.
Evidence
Culture and cultural difference are then constructed as the cause and legitimation of violence, whether the fury of the terrorist or the calculated precision attacks of “smart” warfare such as unmanned drones. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 78
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Useful symmetry: culture talk justifies violence on both sides, which is exactly the false binary Morey will test against the novels’ ambivalent narration.