Safeguarding policy conflates FGM and forced marriage with radicalization

Evidence

Now that the targets of the Prevent agenda have widened to include young people leaving the UK to join ISIS, counter-terrorism policies have been reframed as being about ‘safeguarding’. This conflates concerns about radicalization and terrorism with those about female genital mutilation (FGM), forced marriage and HBV. In a speech about extremism in July 2015, David Cameron provided more information about the number of cases of FGM and HBV than he did about the number of young people who had been ‘radicalized’ (Dearden 2015). While there is no denying that these are issues which require policy interventions, the conflation with extremism and radicalization suggests that they are being instrumentalized as part of a broader anti- Muslim narrative. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 572

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘safeguarding’ reframing of counter-terrorism echoes Bleich’s critique of how broad categories get stretched — and the reader’s Runnymede knowledge of how closed views instrumentalize single issues. — connects to: Civil-liberties-versus-security framing normalizes sacrificing minority rights.; Liberal and far-right Islamophobia converge on gender rights claims against Muslim culture — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 560; I will then consider the demographic factors of fertility rates, age distribution, and migration. Much like conversion, white nationalists view high Muslim fertility rates as a form of jihad. White nationalists use violent rhetoric such as ‘literal baby boom’ (Steyn 2008, xviii) and ‘war of the wombs’ (Kilpatrick 2106, 131) to paint Muslim motherhood as weapon wielded against Western society. This concept of ‘baby jihad’ objectifies Muslim women as baby-producing machines. In turn, these babies will bring about the ruin of Western society through stealth jihad to implement Sharia law, amongst other things such as genital mutilation, rapes, and persecution of Christians. These fears are exacerbated by an aging European population in contrast to a young Muslim population. Finally, migration is viewed as another type of demographic weapon. White nationalists write of the ‘hijra’ as a form of stealth jihad (Corcoarn 2105b), a ‘Trojan horse’ (Solomon and Al Maqdisi 2009) to alter the demographic make-up of non-Muslim countries and implement Sharia law. (+2 more)

Related

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• White nationalists frame Muslim demographic change as an existential threat (similarity 0.80)
• Muslim immigrants are a ‘fifth column’ of secret ‘stealth jihadists’ lying in wait to overthrow Western society and implement Sharia law, according to white nationalists. (similarity 0.80)
• Just as conversions aren’t causing massive demographic shifts, jihadists aren’t causing massive numbers of terror attacks on Western soil. Therefore, it seems clear that Western fears of both… (similarity 0.79)
• White nationalists frame Muslim fertility and migration as demographic weapons against the West (similarity 0.79)
• There is indeed a perceived threat from within Western society due to religious switching, secularism, and lower fertility rates. However, the threat is also viewed as externally imposed on… (similarity 0.79)
• UK integration discourse framed Muslims as demographic threats to national existence (similarity 0.79)
• Similarly, analyzing ‘demography jihad’ can lend a greater understanding to current events including Brexit, the election of President Trump, and ‘Muslim Ban 2.0.’ The concept of baby jihad plays… (similarity 0.78)
• Anti-terror safety demands are displaced onto Muslims disproportionately (similarity 0.78)
• Baby jihad rhetoric links demographic change to Muslim conquest in populist propaganda. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Liberal and far-right Islamophobia converge on gender rights claims against Muslim culture #expands (0.85) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 560
• UKIP used feminist rhetoric to justify burqa bans and FGM screening #exemplifies (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 574
• Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security #expands (0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 123
• Civil-liberties-versus-security framing normalizes sacrificing minority rights. #expands (0.80)
• I will then consider the demographic factors of fertility rates, age distribution, and migration. Much like conversion, white nationalists view high Muslim fertility rates as a form of jihad.… #corroborates (0.78)