Radicalization theories justify treating Muslims as an imperial scapegoat class

Evidence

But every theory has its cracks. And the fissures in this one were larger than in others. “Radicalization theory” focused exclusively on Muslims, and like eugenics or the bell curve and grand racial or religious theories crafted before it, saw Islam as inherently violent. Islam itself, a religion so heterogeneous and deeply layered, was deemed prone to terrorism by a new theory that, like other bigoted philosophies, reduced the “essence” of entire peoples to vile stereotypes. Muslims were flatly reduced to presumptive terrorists, and the War on Terror imposed that as the worldview of its agents and enforcers, spies and soldiers. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 138 (#expands, via linked claim)

While “extremism” is framed in racially and religiously neutral terms, and CVE policing is theoretically focused on all culprits of extremism, it is disproportionately if not entirely focused on “ideas” and behavioral “processes” linked to Islam and expressions of Muslim identity. Radicalization, therefore, is theorized as an exclusively Muslim phenomenon, much like its precedent and related enterprise, terrorism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 377 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalist binaries made imperial intervention in Muslim societies seem morally obligatory. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 184; Imperial violence is projected onto Muslims to appear proportionate — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 355; Liberal societies displace their imperial violence onto Muslims’ supposed inherent nature. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 355 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Radicalization theory reduces all Muslims to presumptive terrorists #expands (0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 138
• Radicalization theory treats Islam as inherently violent like eugenics treated races #expands (0.92)
• Radicalization is theorized as an exclusively Muslim phenomenon #expands (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 377
• Radicalization theory targets Muslims who have committed no crime #expands (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 379
• Counter-radicalization conflates perpetrators’ religion with causes of terrorism. #expands (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 946
• Muslim deportations function as a constitutive logic of the neoliberal imperial state #corroborates (0.82) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 761
• American imperialism, Orientalism, coercive assimilation, and White supremacy jointly produce racialized Muslim categories #corroborates (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 80
• Capitalist imperialism’s denial of equality to colonized peoples produced Muslim racialization #corroborates (0.75)
• Capitalist imperialism plus liberal societies produced Muslims as a full race #corroborates (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 117