Orientalism remains a distinctly racial project anchored in imperial white supremacy

Evidence

The former, we know from Malcolm X, always stands for “purity” and “freedom” and “modern civilization.” And the latter, as broken down by Edward Said, incessantly represents “war” and “violence” and “terrorism.” Orientalism, we see through the prism of the Islamophobia that prevails in the world today, was always and remains a distinctly racial project built upon the imperial designs of white supremacists. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 939

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: Links Said’s Orientalism to the global Islamophobia synthesis the reader is building; ties directly into Iftikhar’s framework.

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