Native informant accounts reduce every Muslim violence to Islam itself.

Evidence

Native informer “tell-all” accounts do not explain how Islam figures in local contexts or in a broader history; they simply demonstrate that Islam explains every episode of Muslim violence in history, at every scale, from a dysfunctional nuclear family to war between medieval empires. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 349

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Captures Grewal’s critique of the native-informant genre’s totalizing explanation — Islam as the single variable at every scale.

Related

• Native informer accounts mechanically attribute all Muslim violence to Islam itself (similarity 0.93)
• Native informer tell-alls reduce all Muslim violence to Islam itself (similarity 0.91)
• Muslim ‘native informants’ authenticate the frame of an inherently violent Islam (similarity 0.84)