Secularism serves as cover for imperial interest in marking Muslims pre-modern

Evidence

A pitiless secularism and monoculture is enforced in the name of modernity and not in the name of capital, invasions, occupations, and the structures of unequal citizenship they sustain. I have shown that if we reject the introduction of ‘sharia’ into the law, for example, it is easy to make the claim that we only do so because we are committed to secularism and not because a marking of Muslims as pre-modern serves the interests of empire. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 400

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly parallels the ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ article’s theme: moral/ideological framings (here secularism, there modesty) as cover for underlying class, imperial, or identity interests.
• XREF: connects to: Religious war imagery about Islam is revived for specific imperial needs