Islamophobic rhetoric uses Muslim women’s oppression to justify war

Evidence

Much of the discourse on the oppression of Muslim women abroad is primarily utilized in order to justify war and military intervention. However, as we have seen above, the oppressive Muslim men and the oppressed Muslim women (elsewhere) also serve as tools for generating enough fear of Islam to introduce legal measures against Islamic Law in US domestic policies. In anti-Muslim discrimination and hate speech, as well as in “saving Muslim women from Islam and Muslim men” discourses (Muslim), women are victims, real or imagined. However, gender considerations are also important in the following discussion of the role women play as producers of Islamophobic discourses. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 545

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the reader’s project on intolerance as a condition of the fearer: the ‘saving Muslim women’ discourse shows fear of Islam serving a function (justifying war and legal measures) for the one who holds it.
• XREF: Aligns with Grosfoguel’s decolonial framing of the West ‘saving’ the Muslim woman from Muslim men. — connects to: Bush used women’s rights and democracy to justify war — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 455; Media imagery ties Islam to violence against women to justify intervention