Muslim inclusion within empire does not dent racism, so anti-prejudice remedies fail

Evidence

Moreover, if Islamophobia is understood primarily as prejudice, exclusion, or discrimination, then the remedy is to bring Muslims into the mainstream and to educate against prejudice. These are worthwhile goals, but I argue that they are insufficient. As we will see, liberal Islamophobia is happy to designate Muslims as “good” if they consent to the war on terror and aid empire. Such a politics of inclusion does little to dismantle the fundamental source of anti-Muslim racism—empire. The central argument of this book is that anti-Muslim racism is best understood, in its myriad and ever-changing manifestations, as rooted in empire. Thus, Muslim inclusion within an imperial system that presides over war, genocide, and torture does little to dent racism. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 90

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core thesis gap: why representation-and-inclusion fixes fail to break the enemy-making loop. The liberal-‘good Muslim’-inclusion move maps directly onto the argument that every fix that stays within the state/empire frame reproduces the loop. — connects to: Diversity rhetoric leaves empire-directed structural anti-Muslim racism untouched — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 44; Anti-Muslim racism is structurally rooted in empire, not individual prejudice — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 78; Anti-Muslim racism is a persistent product of empire, not event-driven. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 93 (+10 more)
• QUESTION: This states the failure of inclusion remedies but, like the reader’s own MOC gap, does not yet specify the machinery of the alternative — serves as the bridge problem.

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim racism remains entrenched despite Muslim inclusion in imperial systems #corroborates (0.97)
• Anti-Muslim racism is rooted in empire, not relieved by inclusion. #corroborates (0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1243
• Anti-Muslim racism is structural to empire rather than a fringe phenomenon. #corroborates (0.95)
• Empire produces anti-Muslim racism which in turn sustains empire #expands (0.92)
• Liberal inclusion of good Muslims is conditional on embracing empire #qualifies (0.90)
• Islamophobia is structural racism rooted in empire, not religious intolerance #expands (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 91
• Muslims were constructed as equals only while their empires could not be dominated #qualifies (0.90)
• Anti-Muslim racism is a normal tool of empire, not crisis response #corroborates (0.85)
• Defensive Muslim groups accommodate rather than confront the racist frame imposed on them #qualifies (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1049