Establishment think tank fellow asserted Muslims must execute apostate Obama
Evidence
For instance, Edward Luttwak, a fellow at the realist/liberal imperialist think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times that was “anti-Muslim, and altogether Islamophobic to an unprecedented and scandalous degree,” wrote Dabashi in Brown Skin, White Masks (London: Pluto Press, 2011, 121). The essence of Luttwak’s argument was that Obama is a Muslim (because his father was Muslim) and that because he had adopted Christianity, Muslims were bound by their religion to execute him. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 1425
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- SEED: Could anchor an essay on how Islamophobic discourse moved from the fringe into mainstream establishment organs via the apostasy/execution framing of Obama.