Islamophobic pundits weaponize dead Muslim women to make criticism impossible.

Evidence

Pamela Geller, another neoconservative American pundit and feminist, has engaged in countless verbal attacks on Islam and Muslims, often on behalf of oppressed Muslim women. One example is the “Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference” convened in Dearborn, Michigan, early May 2012. The conference, organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), both of which Geller is involved in, was “dedicated to increasing awareness of honor killings and gendercide under the Shariah.” 41 Named after a murder victim Geller and SIOA claim to have been the victim of an honor killing, the conference generated critical responses from Muslim communities and organizations, which were promptly utilized by Geller as fodder for her denunciation campaign against American Muslims. Muslim women appear in her propaganda narrative as abused, beaten, and not infrequently, only become useful to her arguments when they are dead. Geller’s arguments are inescapably circular and anyone contradicting her is either a hypocrite or an Islamist. No argument is possible against this representation of Islam, Islamic Law, and … Muslim leaders as misogynist, “standing up for honor killings,” 42 and a threat to Muslim as well as non-Muslim women in the United States and beyond. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 539

Categorization

• SEED: The claim that Muslim women ‘only become useful to her arguments when they are dead’ is a sharp, shareable observation for an essay on how victimhood is weaponized in anti-Islam propaganda.