Liberal inclusive language still frames Muslims only as terror informants
Evidence
Clinton said in her first presidential debate, “We need to be cooperating with Muslim nations and with the American Muslim community. They’re on the frontlines. They can provide information to us that we might not get anywhere else. They need to have close working cooperation with law enforcement in these communities, not be alienated and pushed away.” Although this language may seem inclusive, it only presents Muslims in relation to threats of terror. Muslims are represented as useful to society because they will help identify the potential terrorists. Thus the construction of whiteness and the rejection of Muslims from it is a shared ideology among liberal and conservative whites. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 664
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘useful only as informant’ framing echoes the reader’s interest in how surveillance recruits community members into policing each other. — connects to: Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims; Terrorism and extremism are treated as exclusive to Islam; Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enforcement targeted Muslims despite neutral wording. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 259 (+13 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 664
Broader Connections
- Stereotyped Muslim portrayals remain the norm despite new counterexamples
#corroborates(0.65) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 540 - Modern racism against Muslims persists through more polite, euphemistic policy language
#corroborates(0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749 - Liberal Islamophobia is racist and imperialist despite its gentler rhetoric
#corroborates(0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 430 - Liberal Islamophobia rejects Islam-bashing while enacting policies that target Muslims
#corroborates(0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 583 - Terrorism and extremism are treated as exclusive to Islam
#corroborates(0.55) - Islamophobic discourse denies Muslims the status of ordinary citizens
#corroborates(0.55) - Muslims are presumed terrorists until interrogation proves otherwise
#corroborates(0.55) - Native informants frame Western freedoms as universally liberating versus Islam’s oppressions
#expands(0.55) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 478 - Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims
#corroborates(0.50) - Liberal reading habits themselves can fabricate Muslim difference
#expands(0.50) - Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise
#corroborates(0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282 - Suspicion of Muslims is based on association rather than evidence
#corroborates(0.50) - Representations of Muslims as monsters persist despite statistical evidence against them
#corroborates(0.50) - Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enforcement targeted Muslims despite neutral wording.
#corroborates(0.45) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 259 - Islamophilia and Islamophobia share assumptions that equally harm Muslim inclusion
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