Labeling some Muslims ‘moderate’ marginalizes all others as its necessary counterpart.

Evidence

And as with earlier conceptualisations, if certain Muslims or their communities fail to adhere to the essentialised norms of those deemed ‘moderate’ or ‘mainstream’, then those same individuals and communities become further marginalised, more Other and eventually eradicated. not only does this differentiate Muslims behind homogenous markers of identification but it also unifies different individuals and groups into being essentially ‘good’ and essentially ‘bad’, highlighting how two seemingly contradictory modes of operation can function simultaneously at any given time. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 879

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s survey of definitional camps: this is Allen’s argument that even well-meaning differentiation (open/good vs closed/bad) reproduces the very ideology it claims to avoid. — connects to: Muslims suffer hostility for perceived identity beyond any voluntary religious choice. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 96; Anti-Muslim bias is denied legitimacy by framing Muslimness as voluntarily chosen. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 8

Related

• Muslims suffer hostility for perceived identity beyond any voluntary religious choice. (similarity 0.85)
• Anti-Muslim bias is denied legitimacy by framing Muslimness as voluntarily chosen. (similarity 0.85)
• Fragmenting Muslims into moderates and extremists disseminates Islamophobic ideology as effectively as unifying them. (similarity 0.85)
• Muslim identity is real but never the sole or primary form of social self-understanding. (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-Islamophobia must not become the sole analytical frame for studying Western Muslims (similarity 0.83)
• A valid Islamophobia concept must avoid essentialising Muslims or Islam. (similarity 0.83)
• Essentialised ‘good Muslim’ framings exclude real Muslims from civic participation (similarity 0.82)
• Recourse to Muslim culture masks Islamophobia while homogenizing all Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim identity cannot be reduced to religion alone (similarity 0.82)
• The good-moderate versus bad-extremist Muslim binary always validates Western superiority (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia requires an acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element to be identified. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.81)
• Critics of multiculturalism deserve reasoned evaluation, not merely rhetorical condemnation. (similarity 0.81)
• The essentialised Muslim construct may function to silence marginal Muslims (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim bias is denied legitimacy by framing Muslimness as voluntarily chosen. #expands (0.83) — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 8
• Muslims suffer hostility for perceived identity beyond any voluntary religious choice. #complicates (0.78) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 96