Orientalist Muslim dehumanization legitimizes colonial and imperial adventures

Evidence

From the beginning, Orientalism has been committed to political projects that require the dehumanization of Muslims, especially Muslim men, who have been “linked to elements in Western society (delinquents, the insane, women, the poor) sharing an identity best described as lamentably alien.” In addition to alienating Muslims from the human community, these mythologies have helped to validate numerous colonial and imperial adventures. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 44

Categorization

• XREF: The demonization-as-justification mechanism parallels the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ moral-panic pattern the reader knows. — connects to: The belief that Muslims had different needs enabled colonial indifference.; Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim; Contemporary anti-Western sentiment and Western Islamophobia both stem from the colonial legacy — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 182 (+25 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 44

Broader Connections

• Orientalist scholarship justified colonization by depicting Muslim men as innately abusive #exemplifies (0.85)
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims #corroborates (0.80)
• A shared dehumanizing logic links War on Terror crusades across hemispheres #expands (0.75)
• Literary objectification dehumanizes Arabs even before they are killed #exemplifies (0.75)
• Liberal Islamophobia is racist and imperialist despite its gentler rhetoric #expands (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 430
• Orientalist monsters shifted from animal hybrids to demonized Muslim men #expands (0.70)
• Orientalism sustains the credibility of preexisting Muslim monster images #corroborates (0.70)
• Rare positive portrayals of Muslims cannot offset the dominant dehumanizing narrative #corroborates (0.65)
• Orientalism and Islamophobia are related but not identical concepts #qualifies (0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 236
• Orientalist dissenters defended Islam’s internal diversity against essentializing stereotypes #complicates (0.60)
• Orientalist scholarship conflates Muslims and Jews into one racial type #expands (0.50)