Single demonized figures like bin Laden personify Islamophobic ideology across contexts.

Evidence

Strategies of expurgation can be most vividly seen when individuals become the personification of ideological content. In the contemporary setting, those such as bin Laden have become symbolically personified as such, presenting the greatest perceived threat to the safety and wellbeing of the ingroup, that ingroup being a vast swathe of different peoples, countries, religions, continents and civilisations, encompassing a vast array of social, moral, economic and political processes all allegedly at threat from this one person and his ilk. In achieving this, the construction of bin Laden as the epitome of evil that expurgates the Other, has been a recurrent feature across a range of different socio-political contexts, shaped, defined and constructed in the most extreme forms of hyperbolic and euphemistic ideological content. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 882

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Islamophobia operates by reducing Muslims to a monolithic bloc — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 433; Perceiving Islam as monolithic and static drives most Islamophobia — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 53; Media frames Muslim terrorists as religion-driven simpletons while psychologizing non-Muslim perpetrators — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 506 (+4 more)

Related

• Islamophobia operates by reducing Muslims to a monolithic bloc (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia’s core harm is essentializing all Muslims as enemies, not fear itself (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobic ideology selectively attributes violence to religion only in the Muslim case. (similarity 0.80)
• Perceiving Islam as monolithic and static drives most Islamophobia (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobic tropes become real violence through perceived enemy images (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.79)
• Both Bush and bin Laden framed the world as bifurcated into modernity and medievalism (similarity 0.79)
• Only Muslim violence is read as caused by the perpetrators’ religion (similarity 0.79)
• Fragmenting Muslims into moderates and extremists disseminates Islamophobic ideology as effectively as unifying them. (similarity 0.78)
• Islamophobia spans every thought and deed referencing Muslims or Islam (similarity 0.78)
• Islamophobic ideology self-perpetuates as natural and normative (similarity 0.78)
• Islamophobia comprises ideology, modes of operation, and exclusionary practices (similarity 0.78)
• American Islamophobia rests on homogenizing all Muslims into one monolithic culture. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia operates by reducing Muslims to a monolithic bloc #expands (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 433
• Osama bin Laden was symbolically cast as a medieval figure rejecting modernity. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Media frames Muslim terrorists as religion-driven simpletons while psychologizing non-Muslim perpetrators #exemplifies (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 506
• Perceiving Islam as monolithic and static drives most Islamophobia #corroborates (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 53
• The zombie’s millenarian promise mirrors bin Laden’s vision of a new world #responds-to (0.75)