Islamophobic discourse addresses Muslim men while reducing women to objects

Evidence

Thus, Muslim women here were merely objects of a hate discourse that in other incarnations assumes their continued oppression by Islam and violent Muslim men. They are not spoken to, but rather spoken about, a common feature of much of Islamophobic discourse as we have seen it reincarnate in various forms over the last decade. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 510

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates how discursive silencing functions within Islamophobic rhetoric — the dynamic of speaking about rather than to a group.