Imperial powers recruit gay acceptance to cast Muslims as civilizational others

Evidence

Additionally, as Jasbir Puar argues, large sections of the global gay left were also incorporated into this paradigm through a “wholesale acceptance of the Islamophobic rhetoric that fuels the war on terror,” even going so far as to tacitly endorse the forces “pushing for an Iranian invasion” and occupation. This embrace of imperial ethnocentric racism and the war on terror by gay subjects was met with an incorporation of certain homosexual constituencies within the United States’s new national identity in a process that Puar calls “homonationalism.” US exceptionalism was embellished through its purported gay-friendly credentials. The imperial cooptation and incorporation of normative homosexuality also served to create Muslims as cultural and civilizational others. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 378

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Puar’s term homonationalism: incorporating normative homosexuality into US national identity while creating Muslims as civilizational others.
• XREF: connects to: LGBTQ inclusion served imperial racial othering of Muslims; Co-opting gay rights rhetoric into national identity racialized Muslims as civilizational others.; Liberal inclusion of good Muslims is conditional on embracing empire (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• LGBTQ inclusion served imperial racial othering of Muslims #corroborates (1.00)
• Co-opting gay rights rhetoric into national identity racialized Muslims as civilizational others. #corroborates (0.95)
• Liberal inclusion of good Muslims is conditional on embracing empire #expands (0.85)
• Liberal-reformist Islamophobia remains imperial racism cloaked in benevolence #expands (0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 500
• Modern anti-Muslim racism required both rights-based societies and imperial domination #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 193
• Liberal Muslim-American leaders were co-opted into rebranding imperial policy #complicates (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 496