Manji’s insider critique of Islam was used to legitimate Israeli claims against Arabs.

Evidence

Writing as a young, openly lesbian Canadian of Muslim origin, Irshad Manji’s book The Trouble with Islam soon became a best-seller in Canada. Unlike Chesler and Fallaci, Manji has an insider’s perspective. While addressed to ‘my fellow Muslims,’ however, and ostensibly about calling Muslims to account for their own backwardness, the book is from the beginning an invitation to consider the merits of Jews, Judaism, and the contemporary Israeli regime. The principal means through which we are invited to recognize Israel’s claims is once again culture clash, the notion that Islam and the Arabs who practise it are a fatally pre-modern, misogynist, and tribal community whose shortcomings reveal why Jews must occupy the land and must defend themselves against the ever-present barbarism of the Arabs who surround them. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 230

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Ties to the chapter’s treatment of ‘culture clash’ as a grid for making political claims — the same framework attributed to Huntington.

Related

• Insider Muslim critics deploy the same culture clash logic as non-Muslims (similarity 0.93)
• Manji’s success with young diasporic Muslims is underread as genuine resonance (similarity 0.81)
• A workplace challenge to Muslim identity launched Manji’s anti-Islam polemic (similarity 0.78)