Exiled Muslim intellectuals became key voices justifying the war on terror.

Evidence

In constructing the prototype of the native informer in the following chapters, my only reason for having used some examples rather than others is that in the aftermath of the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq these figures emerged as the most publicly prominent voices among them. One might add quite a number of other figures to those I have examined in detail; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji, Fouad Ajami, Salman Rushdie, and Kanan Makiya certainly deserve much more than the passing references I offer. But just about everything one might say about them is already present in what I say about the figures I do examine. To exhaust the supply would be impossible anyway, since they are increasing in number by the day (some of very low intellectual caliber, others with advanced degrees from great universities). These native informers are part of a much larger group of natives now serving the interests of America and its allies in various capacities—as translators and analysts in the military and the CIA, or FBI informers on Muslims in their communities, or members of think-tanks advising the US government. My intention, however, is to pinpoint the intellectual elite—the most publicly vocal, whose books and articles, TV, radio and internet appearances have been instrumental in manufacturing consent for the “war on terror”—which translates as old-fashioned imperialism with a moral vengeance. These native informers are vital in making the case for that moral vengeance in terms of human rights and especially women’s rights. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 120

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘war on terror framed as moral vengeance via women’s rights’ connects to Lila Abu-Lughod’s critique in ‘Do Muslim Women Need Saving?’ and to the savior narrative literature. — connects to: Prominent Muslim exiles were absorbed into neoconservative institutions to lend authority to clash-of-civilizations narratives.; Neocon institutions recruited even a disgraced exile as an Islam-critical voice — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 702
• SEED: Angle: the pipeline that turns native informers’ memoirs and essays into casus belli — how a single literary genre (the Muslim apostate memoir) fed directly into national security policy.

Related

• Prominent Muslim exiles were absorbed into neoconservative institutions to lend authority to clash-of-civilizations narratives. (similarity 0.89)
• Neocon institutions recruited even a disgraced exile as an Islam-critical voice (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim women’s memoirs served as propaganda tools for US warmongering. (similarity 0.78)