Honor crimes are racialized as uniquely Muslim rather than as general gender violence

Evidence

Both these issues are rightly a matter of public concern and there are many third sector women’s organizations which undertake valuable work alongside government agencies to support women (and also occasionally male victims of such violence). And while it is important to recognize the culturally specific nature of these forms of gendered violence, in the climate of anti-Muslim racism such crimes have been sensationalized and racialized as distinct from a wider spectrum of gender violence. For example, such crimes are regularly described as ‘cultural practices’, separate from forms of domestic violence or child abuse which are committed across society more generally but which are never deemed to be cultural phenomena. These crimes are instead widely seen as the exclusive preserve of Muslims, reflecting the exceptionalism accorded to Muslim misogyny. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 564

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s existing knowledge of how moral panics racialize specific crimes — e.g. the Complaints About Immodesty article’s pattern of signaling through dress/behavior; and aligns with Halliday’s critique of how anti-Muslimism gets singled out. — connects to: Muslim male violence is framed as an innate Islamic or racial impulse; Domestic violence history predicts violence better than Muslim identity does.; Honor violence stems from immigrant integration conditions, not religion alone — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 513 (+4 more)

Related

• Honor violence stems from immigrant integration conditions, not religion alone (similarity 0.86)
• Gendered stereotypes of Muslim men and women are formed in relation to each other. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobic hate crime constrains Muslim women and harms bystander group members. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim hate crime targets veiled women partly for gender performance, not religion alone. (similarity 0.79)
• Religious cultural practices get read as evidence of Muslim men’s misogyny rather than doctrine. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims #expands (0.90) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274
• Muslim male violence is framed as an innate Islamic or racial impulse #corroborates (0.88)
• Domestic violence history predicts violence better than Muslim identity does. #contradicts (0.85)
• Islamophobic stereotypes of Muslims form a closed gendered loop. #corroborates (0.84) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 487
• Honor violence stems from immigrant integration conditions, not religion alone #contradicts (0.82) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 513
• Religious identity can be racialized when signifiers trigger profiling #expands (0.80)