Even antiwar critics defaulted to Islamic imagery for violence and unreason

Evidence

If Lapham needs an allegory to help with indoctrination in hatred and terror, why are Islam and Quranic language the first things that come to his mind? — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 266

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Islam-is-violent frame deflects attention from empire’s violence — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 345; Religious war imagery about Islam is revived for specific imperial needs

Related

• The Islam-is-violent frame deflects attention from empire’s violence (similarity 0.83)
• Scientific representation of Islam historically precedes and enables Western military action (similarity 0.83)
• Religious war imagery about Islam is revived for specific imperial needs (similarity 0.83)
• Islam was reframed as a rival political civilization to justify imperial violence (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobic depictions chiefly served domestic critiques unrelated to Islam. (similarity 0.81)
• The monster image of Islam persists because it was a self-serving fantasy (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Muslim images were deployed against unrelated domestic targets (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia functions as a more potent global weapon than military force (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia spans the political spectrum and is embedded in empire’s infrastructure (similarity 0.80)
• War on Terror discourse makes suspecting Muslims feel rationally normal (similarity 0.80)
• American rhetoric repeatedly fused Muslim identity with fanaticism (similarity 0.80)
• Indian Islamophobia constitutes a more immediate lethal threat to Muslims than the pandemic does (similarity 0.80)
• Even anti-Islamophobic Muslim novels indirectly accept the frame they oppose. (similarity 0.79)
• Christians attributed violence to Islam while practicing holy war themselves (similarity 0.79)