Native-informant accounts scale Islam into the single cause of all Muslim violence

Evidence

In the post-9/11 era, amid the aftermath of a number of mass shootings (e.g., “Mumbai rocked,” 2008l; Pew Research Center, 2009) and the rising death toll of U.S. military personnel associated with the war on terror (U.S. Department of Defense, Statistical Information Analysis Division, 2012), Muslims and the religion of Islam are prominently centered in conflicts. Although an exceptionally small proportion of Muslims are responsible for acts of violence, recent events and the tumultuous nature of the Middle East often prompts many people to view Islam and its followers as backward, irrational, and inherently dangerous (Gottschalk & Greenberg, 2008). — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 8 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Native informer tell-alls reduce all Muslim violence to Islam itself — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 349; Muslim ‘native informants’ authenticate the frame of an inherently violent Islam — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 348; Native informer accounts mechanically attribute all Muslim violence to Islam itself (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Native informant accounts reduce every Muslim violence to Islam itself. #expands (0.97)
• Rare Muslim violence drives broad perception of Islam as violent #complicates (0.72) — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 8