Muslim women commentators function as neo-Orientalists confirming Islam’s threat to the West.

Evidence

Moustafa Bayoumi writes that these Muslim women commentators are modern-day neo-Orientalists who narrate stories about Islam for Western consumption. The stories they tell are about Islam as a system of tyranny that defeats human liberty and the subsequent need to either renounce or drastically reform Islam to be more like Christianity, Judaism, or even atheism. These female native informants are a version of the “good Muslim” who confirms to Western viewers that Islam poses a threat to women and to the West. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 617

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘good Muslim native informant’ figure and the neo-Orientalist framing used to categorize such commentators.