Huntingtonās othering logic scripted the War on Terror.
Evidence
Huntington said it himself: āTo define themselves, people need an other.ā And he authored the script for the War on Terror, which found that ideal, ominous other in the entire religion of Islam. ā Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and theā¦, 231
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Western self-definition required Islam as a constructed other (similarity 0.89)
- Huntingtonās clash-of-civilizations thesis came to frame the entire War on Terror. (similarity 0.88)
- Huntingtonās framework supplied the lexicon including āwar on terrorā to policymakers. (similarity 0.86)
- Huntingtonās clash of civilizations framing captured the War on Terror. (similarity 0.86)
- Huntingtonās clash-of-civilizations thesis gave the terror war a crusade framing (similarity 0.86)
- Huntington repackaged Orientalist binaries into a new lexicon of civilizational clash. (similarity 0.84)
- The War on Terror trained people to see extremism as exclusive to Islam (similarity 0.82)
- The War on Terror fused the concepts of Muslim and terrorist. (similarity 0.82)
- The War on Terror deliberately deepens civilizational divides rather than repairing them (similarity 0.81)
- War on Terror discourse makes suspecting Muslims feel rationally normal (similarity 0.80)
- Flattening Islam into one object enabled civilizational judgments against it (similarity 0.80)
- Huntington declared all of Islam, not just fundamentalism, the Westās existential threat. (similarity 0.80)
- Huntingtonās clash theory targeted all 1.7 billion Muslims, not just extremists. (similarity 0.80)
- The War on Terror taught the public to equate extremism with Islam. (similarity 0.80)
- The clash of civilizations thesis persists because it justifies advancing Western interests. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Huntingtonās clash-of-civilizations thesis came to frame the entire War on Terror.
#expands(0.80) ā Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and theā¦, 274