Radicalization theory reduces all Muslims to presumptive terrorists

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines “radicalization theory” as a framing that, like eugenics and the bell curve, essentializes Muslims as inherently violent.
• XREF: Pairing with Iftikhar’s treatment of Islamophobia definitions; this places a specific pseudo-theory as its ideological engine. — connects to: Radicalization theories racialize Muslims by presuming Islam drives them to violence — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 630; Radicalization theory was designed to serve counterterrorism policy, not truth — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 599; Textualism reduces every Muslim-majority failing to the Quran’s teachings (+1 more)