Modernity-versus-pre-modernity framing authorizes judgment without establishing details

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What the location of us in modernity and them in pre-modernity accomplishes is to preclude the possibility that their troubles, as it were, might actually require more understanding on our part. Nussbaum, Ling writes, does not ‘consider how we might understand or communicate cross-culturally so that we may have the authority to judge others. She only emphasises the right to judgment.’ In the same vein, I suggest that the Action Plan also emphasizes the right to judgment, that is, the right to know what is best for the Other without troubling to establish many of the details. Little need be said about the diversity of views in Muslim communities, the extent of the violence, or its relationship to other factors. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 309