Left-liberal intellectuals confirm conservative caricatures of Islam

Evidence

With this immediacy, as its inevitable adjunct, goes the tendency to treat Islam as something without a history of its own; or if a history is conceded to it, that history will either seem irrelevant or it will essentially replicate itself — violence, fanaticism, despotism — over and over across the centuries. Thus it is that the arguments of conservatives like Moynihan and Tucker are confirmed and fleshed out by left-liberals. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 169

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the standing directive on decorum and with other readings on how reputational/position-taking conformity shapes intellectual production across nominal political divides.

Related

• Islamic doctrine has justified opposite political programs alike (similarity 0.82)
• Western ideological camps all reduce Islam to a scapegoat (similarity 0.81)
• Every portrayal of Islam is an act of willed interpretation, not a description. (similarity 0.81)
• Western discourse reduces all Muslim societies to a single malevolent essence (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia spans the political spectrum and is embedded in empire’s infrastructure (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobic discourse falsely insists the Quran demands literalist reading while the Bible permits critique. (similarity 0.78)
• Islamic history resists any single coherent characterization (similarity 0.78)
• Radical and subversive thought has always been integral to Islamic history (similarity 0.78)
• Islamic studies’ marginality lets media spread racist caricatures unchecked (similarity 0.78)