Muslims are depicted as solely responsible for their own political failures, absolving Western power

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Instead, it is clear that these may be blamed on Muslims themselves. ‘The cancer begins with us,’ Manji writes, and not with America, a country that has the courage to acknowledge its own corruption, as it did with Enron! By the end of The Trouble with Islam, it is not clear what will redeem Muslims from their fatally pre-modern cultures. Manji has only one small suggestion: ‘God-conscious, female-fuelled capitalism.’ In line here with Vogue magazine’s suggestions that beauty schools will save Afghanistan, Manji is hopeful about small income-generating projects for women in Muslim countries. That, and a continued vigilance in the West towards Muslims. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 238

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• ADDENDUM: The ‘female-fuelled capitalism’ as salvation directly extends the ‘Grafting & Growth’ theme of how economic fixes (like beauty schools) are offered as infrastructure for marginalized places, and parallels the immodesty moral-panic framework from my earlier article.