Depicting the Other’s politics as sexualized madness marks them as an inferior race

Evidence

Although Black and Muslim identities overlap intimately in the demographics of France, the United States, and places beyond and in between, anti-Blackness and Islamophobia are distinct branches of bigotry. Yet young Desi Maher’s trenchant observation highlights the way in which both existences are ascribed deviance on account of their racialized identities. In the same fashion that law enforcement, and the judicial and carceral institutions that orbit and abet it, assign criminalized threat to Blackness, the War on Terror and its central purveyors assign suspicion of terrorism to Muslim bodies. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Framing the Other’s political vocabulary through eroticized etymology infantilizes and discredits them; The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized.; Successive moral panics recycled the same demonizing stereotypes across groups — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 162 (+6 more)

Related

• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics (similarity 0.84)
• Muslims were constituted as an inferior race via the figure of Homo islamicus. (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Muslim jokes racialize Muslim bodies and mark them as untrusted (similarity 0.82)
• Racialization assigns presumed negative traits to define a group. (similarity 0.82)
• The vampire, mummy, and zombie all originated in racialized anti-Muslim discourse. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia operates through imputed inferior traits rooted in religious identity (similarity 0.81)
• Even racialized portrayals of Muslim enemies carried Islamophobic overtones (similarity 0.80)
• Muslim and Black coalition-building deepened shared understanding of intersecting racisms. (similarity 0.80)
• Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia (similarity 0.80)
• Global events normalized Islamophobic discourse and made Muslims the ultimate Other (similarity 0.80)
• Shared connection to Islam, not color, now anchors Muslim racialization (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is rarely analyzed through the lens of race and racism. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia operates as cultural racism rooted in religion, culture, and ethnicity rather than biology. (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval theologians constructed Muslims as a degraded race descending from the slave Hagar (similarity 0.79)
• European superiority over Muslim empires enabled racial notions of Muslim inferiority (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. #corroborates (0.85)
• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• Colonial moral categories coded racialized peoples’ aspirations as dangerous affective excess #corroborates (0.78)
• Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other #corroborates (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833
• Global events normalized Islamophobic discourse and made Muslims the ultimate Other #exemplifies (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 255
• Successive moral panics recycled the same demonizing stereotypes across groups #corroborates (0.72) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 162
• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other #qualifies (0.72)
• Dehumanizing film narratives grant viewers a perceived right to kill the Other. #expands (0.72)