Guilt by tenuous organizational proximity replaced evidence in anti-Muslim campaigns

Evidence

In fact, what are at stake here are types and degrees of innocence and guilt. In addition to the difficulty of establishing Issa’s “guilt” in relation to terrorism—his background is murky and Russian reports unreliable—the novel is concerned with the construction of a narrative of guilt by association, favored by Bachmann’s hawkish intelligence nemesis Arnie Mohr, who bases it on Issa’s known contacts. Untraceable Muslims are automatically treated with suspicion, even when, as in this case, the supposed “evidence” seems not to fit the personality of the accused. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 332 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The network smeared a secular educator by fabricating guilt-by-association with Muslim groups; Monolithic Islam assumptions enable guilt-by-association targeting — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 55; Guilt by association rather than evidence determines suspicion of Muslims in the war-on-terror era. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 332 (+18 more)

Broader Connections

• Guilt by association rather than evidence determines suspicion of Muslims in the war-on-terror era. #corroborates (1.00) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 332
• Anti-Muslim discrimination can target ideology and affiliation rather than phenotype #corroborates (1.00)
• Suspicion of Muslims is based on association rather than evidence #exemplifies (1.00)
• Official rhetoric framing Islam as ideology licensed anti-Muslim suspicion #responds-to (0.95) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 864
• Conspiracist validation replaces evidence with communal repetition and affirmation. #responds-to (0.95) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 303
• Even denial statements about Muslim threat can partially activate anti-Muslim assumptions #responds-to (0.94) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 589
• Monolithic Islam assumptions enable guilt-by-association targeting #complicates (0.93) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 55
• Normalization of anti-Muslim ideas produces a morally self-justifying rationalism #complicates (0.91) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 457
• Anti-Muslim discrimination operates across individual, interpersonal, community, and societal levels #complicates (0.89) — Naheed Ahmed, Measurement of Perceived Interpersonal…, 19
• Organized funding sustains professional anti-Muslim propaganda networks in the US #complicates (0.88) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 29
• Political leaders’ anti-Muslim slander correlates with a wave of everyday anti-Muslim incidents #complicates (0.88) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1370
• Perceiving a group’s wrongdoing as situationally justifiable blocks collective guilt #complicates (0.87) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 297
• Social media reproduces rather than disrupts established anti-Muslim media frames #complicates (0.87) — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 35
• Evidence of anti-Muslim incidents has not convinced many of Islamophobia as a distinct phenomenon #complicates (0.86) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 660
• Accusatory anti-islamophobia rhetoric undermines the term’s credibility #complicates (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 672