Religious cultural practices get read as evidence of Muslim men’s misogyny rather than doctrine.

Evidence

Surveillance of culture is racialized when cultural practices are essentialized as innate to Muslims, subjecting them to intense scrutiny. For example, any abuse that Muslim women experience at the hands of Muslim men is reduced to religious cultural values perpetuated by Islam. The Taliban’s treatment of women in Afghanistan is an example of this culturally fueled racism. Muslim women were constructed as in need of saving from Muslim men, which in turn justified the invasion of Afghanistan (Razack 2008 Abu-Lughod 2013). Another example of this is the misconception that Muslim women are forced to wear the hijab. Private citizens chastise Muslim American women who wear the hijab because for them it represents subservience to patriarchy, rather than being understood as a choice. Wearing the hijab is treated as a cultural aberration to American societal values and individuals who wear it are understood as antimodern and antifeminist. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultural racism targets Muslims’ beliefs and traditions as if they were inherited essence.; Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274; Islamophobic myths rest on distorted readings that have become unquestioned common sense. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 155 (+2 more)

Related

• Cultural racism targets Muslims’ beliefs and traditions as if they were inherited essence. (similarity 0.94)
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims (similarity 0.93)
• Cultural and religious practices become racialized markers treated as inherent traits. (similarity 0.88)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. (similarity 0.88)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic (similarity 0.87)
• Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group. (similarity 0.86)
• Racialization operates through cultural traits and social interactions, not only physical cues. (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural and religious practices can racialize a body just as skin tone does (similarity 0.85)
• Polygamy jurisprudence racialized Islam by treating the practice as foreign and treasonable (similarity 0.85)
• Islamic culture seemed monolithically tyrannical to Southey (similarity 0.84)
• Muslims move down the racial hierarchy rather than becoming a new race (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim men can be racialized by ethnicity alone, not only by disclosed religion (similarity 0.83)
• Religious beliefs are read as biological traits marking Muslims as racially inferior (similarity 0.83)
• Gender shapes both how Muslims are racialized and how they respond (similarity 0.83)
• Racism functions as practices that ascribe and legitimate social positions (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Cultural racism targets Muslims’ beliefs and traditions as if they were inherited essence. #corroborates (0.60)
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims #corroborates (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274