Native informer tell-alls reduce all 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
- XREF: Connects to ch12’s native-informant discussion and to the theory chain the MOC traces (who authenticates the enemy frame). — connects to: Native informer accounts mechanically attribute all Muslim violence to Islam itself; Native informant accounts reduce every Muslim violence to Islam itself.; Native-informant accounts scale Islam into the single cause of all Muslim violence (+1 more)
- DEFINE: Names precisely what a native-informant tell-all does rhetorically — reduces every scale of violence to one religion.
Broader Connections
- Native informer accounts mechanically attribute all Muslim violence to Islam itself
#corroborates(0.98) - Native informant accounts reduce every Muslim violence to Islam itself.
#corroborates(0.98) - Native-informant accounts scale Islam into the single cause of all Muslim violence
#corroborates(0.96)