Islamophobia’s growth is furthered by savagery attributed to Islam’s victims

Evidence

In Samir Amin’s more sanguine view, “the project of contemporary political Islam … is a conservative project, completely acceptable to the capitalist world order,” and Western governments “know that the power of political Islam has the virtue, for them, of rendering the people powerless and, consequently, ensuring their comprador status.… The savagery attributed to the people who are the primary victims of political Islam facilitates the growth of Islamophobia. That, in turn, makes it easier to accept the prospect of an increasingly polarized capitalist expansion.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 58

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Amin’s causal chain (attributed savagery → Islamophobia → polarized capitalism) is a mechanism the reader could test against Hamid’s depictions.

Related

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• Crisis circumstances expose laïcité as a mask for Islamophobia (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia functions as scapegoating that diverts attention from capitalism’s failures. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia chiefly functions to deflect attention from domestic economic failures (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia is a lay ideology that disavows events’ political meanings rooted in empire, racism, and resistance, displacing political antagonisms onto the plane of culture. (similarity 0.79)
• Elites mobilized Islamophobia to advance their political agendas across centuries (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia worldwide shares the core link between Islam and terrorism #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 162
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #corroborates (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 33
• Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance #complicates (0.50) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 706