NRA-backed groups position Muslims as interchangeable boogeymen

Evidence

It is unfortunate that the world needs to have boogeymen. For Muslims, it is doubly unfortunate that entities like the NRA and their adjacent right-wing political organizations have decided that today they are these boogeymen. It is apparently easy to convince the indoctrinated that Muslims want to take away guns, even though no real evidence for this position exists. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 112

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 112
• XREF: connects to: Four interconnected groups jointly project the Muslim-enemy image — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 537; Suspicion of Muslims is based on association rather than evidence; Secularists and Christians alike deployed Muslims as foils (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Four interconnected groups jointly project the Muslim-enemy image #expands (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 537
• Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise #expands (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282
• Suspicion of Muslims is based on association rather than evidence #expands (0.60)
• Secularists and Christians alike deployed Muslims as foils #expands (0.60)
• The acceptable Muslim stereotype demands Sufi, peaceful, feminist, moderate, non-Arab traits #expands (0.60)
• Religious identity replaced ethnicity as the marker making Muslim Americans seen as anti-American #expands (0.50)
• Right-wing Islamophobes are structurally embedded rather than marginal figures #corroborates (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 34