Misunderstanding sacred values caused Western policy failures on extremism

Evidence

I would contend that the fixation with Islam offered by Islamophobia provides a useful cover, a means of evading the numerous specific local, regional, and global issues that cause diverse and otherwise antagonistic solidarities to emerge under the rallying banner of Islam. Thus, although Islamophobia fetishizes Islam as the cause and explanation of violence, the phenomenon of anti-Muslim prejudice serves a useful purpose for Islamophobes in screening out the tortuous results of decades of geopolitical meddling by the West across large swathes of the world where Muslims are in the majority. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 513 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reducing sacred values to material ones worsens conflict; Religious ritual converts secular values into sacred ones that harden conflict; Islamophobia functions as a screen hiding Western geopolitical responsibility — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 513 (+1 more)

Related

• Religion bundles separable traits whose conflict roles must be disaggregated (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia functions as a screen hiding Western geopolitical responsibility (similarity 0.81)
• A religion’s violence depends on context, not inherent character (similarity 0.80)
• Reducing sacred values to material ones worsens conflict (similarity 0.80)
• Western ideological camps all reduce Islam to a scapegoat (similarity 0.78)
• Sacralizing religion extends state power across identity, law, and violence (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Religious ritual converts secular values into sacred ones that harden conflict #expands (0.85)
• Religion bundles separable traits whose conflict roles must be disaggregated #expands (0.80)
• Islamophobia functions as a screen hiding Western geopolitical responsibility #complicates (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 513