Muslims have been disproportionately involved in intergroup violence

Evidence

Wherever one looks along the perimeter of Islam, Muslims have problems living peaceably with their neighbors. The question naturally rises as to whether this pattern of late-twentieth-century conflict between Muslim and non-Muslim groups is equally true of relations between groups from other civilizations. In fact, it is not. Muslims make up about one-fifth of the world’s population but in the 1990s they have been far more involved in intergroup violence than the people of any other civilization. The evidence is overwhelming. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 709 (#expands, via linked claim)

The realization that anti-Muslim attitudes are embedded in larger social and political processes than the fear of Islam begs the question of why has American society resorted to religion as an explanation for acts of terror committed by a very small portion of the world’s vast Muslim population, thereby stigmatizing American Muslims to the point that large number of Americans are willing to tolerate discriminatory profiling of Muslims and to deny American Muslims their constitutional rights to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and to build places of worship. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 261 (#complicates, via linked claim)

In short, for Varadarajan, all Muslim Americans are “imminently violent,” and while they appear to be integrated into American society, they are in fact ticking time bombs who could explode into violent, murderous rage. Kundnani argues that Hasan carried out the attack in large part due to the fear that he would be deployed to a Muslim-majority country and become complicit in war crimes against Muslims. He adds that Hasan also may have acted because the authorities had refused to investigate allegations of war crimes that had emerged in his counseling sessions with army patients. Discounting these real lived circumstances that might have explained his actions, cultural racism was deployed to make the argument that Muslims are driven by “Islam” to be violent. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 621 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Half of all interreligious wars from 1820-1929 pitted Muslims against Christians; Muslims were disproportionately involved in intergroup violence relative to their share of world population. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 709; Islam has had more violent intercivilizational conflicts than other civilizations — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 1358 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslims were disproportionately involved in intergroup violence relative to their share of world population. #expands (0.98) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 709
• Religion gets invoked to explain violence committed by a tiny Muslim minority #complicates (0.88) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 261
• Cultural racism explains Muslim violence through religion rather than lived circumstances #complicates (0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 621
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link #complicates (0.78) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282