Erasing non-Western feminist activity constitutes a silencing Islamophobic move

Evidence

Nafisi’s particular trick is not only to snuff out any possibility of feminist practice or resistance from within Islam but also to disregard all kinds of feminist activity that does not originate in the West and coincide with secular values. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 227

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Tool for reading Naqvi — does Home Boy likewise erase local forms of Muslim self-fashioning in favor of a secular Western frame?
• SEED: Essay angle: what counts as ‘evidence’ of Muslim agency in a novel — and which archive (Western-secular or local-religious) the author draws from reveals the orientation.

Related

• Depicting feminism as Western-only erases Muslim feminist movements (similarity 0.89)
• Western women’s post-feminist agency is constructed against the figure of the oppressed Muslim woman. (similarity 0.83)
• Blaming Islam for oppression omits Western support for repressive regimes (similarity 0.82)
• Neoconservative discourse exploits women’s rights to mark Islam as foreign. (similarity 0.81)
• Comparisons of Muslim-region misogyny can silence domestic feminist debate. (similarity 0.80)
• Feminism that ignores anti-Muslim racism is inconsistent (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobic discourse uses Muslim women as pawns to serve imperial and domestic agendas (similarity 0.80)
• Selective media focus on Muslim sexism constructs Western enlightenment as its opposite (similarity 0.79)
• Western discourse displaces Muslim threats onto obsessing over women’s clothing (similarity 0.79)
• The veil ban discourse silences Muslim women’s own autonomous voices (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobic rhetoric becomes hardest to challenge when feminist spokespersons adopt it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Comparisons of Muslim-region misogyny can silence domestic feminist debate. #exemplifies (0.60) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 562
• Gendered Islamophobia intersects feminist, antiracist, and neoconservative agendas simultaneously. #expands (0.60) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 583
• In-group feminist critique of Islam resists clean categorization. #expands (0.50) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 564
• Interrogating Western-ness is required to expunge Islamophobia #responds-to (0.50) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 522
• Islamophobic discourse uses Muslim women as pawns to serve imperial and domestic agendas #expands (0.50) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 542
• Self-concealment by fearful Muslims inadvertently advances Islamophobia’s erasure mission #responds-to (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 540
• Muslim women carry the burden of dismantling racialized myths through daily behavior #complicates (0.50) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 387
• Islamophobic stereotypes of Muslims form a closed gendered loop. #expands (0.40) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 487