Kumar contends that empire creates the conditions for anti-Muslim racism, which in turn sustains empire.

Evidence

Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 years after 9/11 (Verso Books)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: American Orientalism is the living root system that drives Islamophobia. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 168; Kumar characterizes anti-Muslim racism as an ‘ideology and practice rooted in the political economy of the empire’ (p. 7), distancing it from religious intolerance. — Islamophobia and the politics of empire: twenty years after 9/11 (review); Anti-Muslim racism remains entrenched despite Muslim inclusion in imperial systems (+2 more)

Related

• Kumar characterizes anti-Muslim racism as an ‘ideology and practice rooted in the political economy of the empire’ (p. 7), distancing it from religious intolerance. (similarity 0.98)
• Anti-Muslim racism is a persistent product of empire, not event-driven. (similarity 0.89)
• Anti-Muslim racism arises from empire as a normal modality, not only crisis. (similarity 0.89)
• Anti-Muslim racism is structurally rooted in empire, not individual prejudice (similarity 0.89)
• Anti-Muslim racism operates as steady imperial practice, not only crisis response (similarity 0.88)
• Anti-Muslim racism is structural to empire rather than a fringe phenomenon. (similarity 0.88)
• Islamophobia is structural racism rooted in empire, not religious intolerance (similarity 0.87)
• Anti-Muslim racism is rooted in empire, not relieved by inclusion. (similarity 0.87)
• Empire produces anti-Muslim racism which in turn sustains empire (similarity 0.85)
• Full anti-Muslim racism required both Enlightenment freedom ideology and European military dominance (similarity 0.84)
• Muslim inclusion within empire does not dent racism, so anti-prejudice remedies fail (similarity 0.84)
• Pro-imperial Muslim collaborators get sidelined while both racisms bolster empire (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia operates as an empire advanced by cooperating governments with distinct anti-Muslim agendas (similarity 0.83)
• Muslims were constructed as equals only while their empires could not be dominated (similarity 0.83)
• Empire is a contingent process that reproduces itself through shifting racism. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim racism remains entrenched despite Muslim inclusion in imperial systems #corroborates (0.90)