Interrogating Western-ness is required to expunge Islamophobia

Related

• Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences (similarity 0.85)
• Academic definitions of Islamophobia must be coupled with lived testimony. (similarity 0.85)
• European Islamophobia is more layered because it rests on living history of Islamic conquest. (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims (similarity 0.84)
• Western desire to domesticate Muslim cultures is marked by Islamophobic estrangement. (similarity 0.84)
• Formal choices like omniscience can both underpin and expose Islamophobic agendas (similarity 0.84)
• Western ideological camps all reduce Islam to a scapegoat (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia descends directly from Orientalism’s civilizational divide between Islam and the West (similarity 0.83)
• Even failed portrayals of Muslim extremism expose the West’s own comforting fairytales (similarity 0.83)
• Global fiction contests Islamophobia by refusing the clash-of-civilizations model (similarity 0.83)
• Countering Islamophobia requires interrogating the construct of Westernness itself. (similarity 0.83)
• Even anti-Islamophobic Muslim novels indirectly accept the frame they oppose. (similarity 0.82)
• Western discourse reduces all Muslim societies to a single malevolent essence (similarity 0.82)
• The West relegates all Muslims along with other non-whites to a shared medieval past. (similarity 0.82)
• Indian Islamophobia constitutes a more immediate lethal threat to Muslims than the pandemic does (similarity 0.82)