Culture talk legitimizes violence by both terrorists and Western militaries

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

• XREF: The symmetry of culturalized violence on both sides answers directly to Morey’s guiding question about contesting vs. reinforcing the binary. — connects to: Culture talk legitimates both terrorist violence and Western drone strikes.; Culture talk explains terrorism as flowing from cultural essence rather than economics or politics. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 77; Culture-talk in anti-Muslim discourse both displaces and produces political meaning (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Culture talk legitimates both terrorist violence and Western drone strikes.; Culture talk explains terrorism as flowing from cultural essence rather than economics or politics. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 77; Culture-talk in anti-Muslim discourse both displaces and produces political meaning (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Culture talk legitimates both terrorist violence and Western drone strikes. #expands (0.97)
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421