Feminist culture-clash rhetoric compounds the death-worlds already awaiting Muslim populations.

Evidence

The mark of the foreigner, always a cultural mark that is understood as an immutable difference, carries with it these dire consequences in an empire of camps. When feminists invoke notions of culture clash through appeal to the idea of dangerous Muslim men and imperilled Muslim women, contemporary political conditions ensure that their words will not be taken lightly. The death-worlds of which Mbembe writes, and the recolonization Balibar suggests is occurring for Europe’s Muslims, are projects underwritten by the idea that some have to be killed so others can live. Unbridgeable cultural differences become a significant reason to create communities without the right to have rights, communities of abandoned populations marked as outside the racial kin group that is the nation. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 202

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Communities without the right to have rights’ echoes Arendt’s formulation, and pairs with Razack’s own chapter 1-2 framework.