Liberal societies displace their imperial violence onto Muslims’ supposed inherent nature.

Evidence

The racist and imperialist violence upon which US-led capitalism depends cannot be acknowledged in liberal society so it is transferred onto the personality of the Muslim and seen as emanating from “outside” the social order. Imperial violence is then only ever a proportionate response to the inherently aggressive and threatening nature of the fanatical Muslim enemy. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 355

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the reader’s MOC thread: the displacement mechanism is named as serving ‘US-led capitalism,’ giving a capitalism-specific reading to test against Soviet/Gulf cases. — connects to: Orientalist binaries made imperial intervention in Muslim societies seem morally obligatory. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 184; Imperial violence is projected onto Muslims to appear proportionate — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 355; Capitalist imperialism plus liberal societies produced Muslims as a full race — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 117 (+11 more)
• QUESTION: If displacement is driven by capitalism’s need for unacknowledged violence, does a Soviet or Gulf state apparatus perform the same displacement differently or not at all?
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 355

Broader Connections

• Modern anti-Muslim racism required both rights-based societies and imperial domination #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 193
• Muslims are racialized by reframing their religion as a violent ideology. #expands (0.82)
• Radicalization theories justify treating Muslims as an imperial scapegoat class #corroborates (0.82)
• Imperial violence is recast as proportionate response to an inherently aggressive Muslim enemy. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Islam was reframed as a rival political civilization to justify imperial violence #expands (0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 272
• Capitalist imperialism plus liberal societies produced Muslims as a full race #qualifies (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 117
• Orientalism reduced multifaceted Muslim societies to a single doctrinal Islam #expands (0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 424
• Liberal-reformist Islamophobia remains imperial racism cloaked in benevolence #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 500
• Direct contact with Muslims shaped imperial perceptions of Islam. #qualifies (0.72) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 118
• Liberal inclusion of good Muslims is conditional on embracing empire #qualifies (0.72)
• The Islam-is-violent frame deflects attention from empire’s violence #expands (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 345
• Orientalists reframed Islam as a political system rather than a religion. #qualifies (0.72)