Ex-Muslim critics abroad worsen anti-Muslim racism and shield the West.
Evidence
Singling Muslim societies out, with a renegade house Muslim going berserk over these problems in English for an audience foreign and at times even hostile, not only does nothing toward addressing and alleviating those problems but in fact puts expatriate Muslim communities in North America and Western Europe, Ibn Warraq’s primary targets, on the defensive while aiding and abetting racist Europeans and Americans in their contempt for the newest phase of immigration that brings yet another colored wave from their former colonies to their shores. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 436
Categorization
- XREF: Mirrors Dabashi’s standing claim about native informers serving imperial masters; connects to the chapter’s structural argument.
Related
- European native informers serve local anti-immigrant racism rather than US imperial aims. (similarity 0.85)
- US and European hostility to Islam arises from distinct imperial versus racist sources (similarity 0.84)
- So-called ex-Muslim spokespeople serve imperial audiences by manufacturing a Muslim enemy (similarity 0.81)
- Muslims have long practiced self-criticism within their own languages under their own names (similarity 0.80)
- Native informers can undercut their own thesis by citing evidence against it. (similarity 0.80)
- Islamophobia now operates cross-racially through non-Western imperial conquests (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Muslim racism operates through a distinct racial logic (similarity 0.80)
- US empire-building abroad drives anti-Muslim racism domestically (similarity 0.80)
- American intellectuals historically exported anti-Muslim views as global ambassadors of prejudice. (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-Muslim racism cannot be understood only through recent U.S. racial formations (similarity 0.78)
- Religiosity plus foreign-policy dissent makes Muslims prime targets for state repression (similarity 0.78)
- Critics of empire face danger while its endorsers are rewarded in the West (similarity 0.78)
- Native informer intellectuals have replaced Orientalists in serving imperial capital (similarity 0.78)
- Native informers embody self-hatred by personifying what they denounce (similarity 0.78)