Politicizing militant criminal acts enables criminalizing legitimate liberation movements
Evidence
The aggressive politicization of the criminal acts of militant Muslims (by their neoconservative American counterparts) was inevitably accompanied by the criminalization of legitimate political acts—so that national liberation movements like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Mahdi’s Army have been ipso facto criminalized. In other words, the criminal acts of Osama bin Laden and his followers were politicized so that the political projects of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Mahdi’s Army could be criminalized—and that is the principal distortion that needs to be corrected. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 618
Categorization
- SEED: Article angle: the mirror-logic of politicizing one group’s crimes to criminalize another group’s politics — generalize beyond Islam to any scapegoating regime.
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 618