Singling out Islam for sexism serves a civilizational contrast narrative rather than fact.

Evidence

Some point to the fact that women’s rights have been severely curtailed by right-wing Islamist regimes such as the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Conservative Alliance in Iran. We might respond to this point in two ways. First, the parties of political Islam adapt religion to serve their political goals in much the same way as American Christian fundamentalists have used Christianity to attack women’s rights. However, these Islamist parties and organizations are not a monolith. Second, all of the world’s major religions are to a greater or lesser extent sexist. Singling out Islam for its sexist practices in the mainstream media and public discourse is not a historical oversight but a systematic attempt to construct “our” values and religion as being enlightened in contrast with “theirs.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 307

Categorization

• XREF: Sharpens the vault’s existing claim that Islamophobia operates as imperial policy by adding the civilizational ‘our enlightened vs their backward’ frame, in dialogue with Rana and Aziz. — connects to: The good versus bad Muslim label tracks support for US empire rather than facts. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 87; Singling out Islam for sexism is systematic othering, not historical oversight.; Selective media focus on Muslim sexism constructs Western enlightenment as its opposite (+3 more)
• QUESTION: What empirical defense exists for singling out Islam given comparable sexism elsewhere — does the author offer data or only the parity argument?

Broader Connections

• Singling out Islam for sexism is systematic othering, not historical oversight. #corroborates (0.90)
• Selective media focus on Muslim sexism constructs Western enlightenment as its opposite #corroborates (0.85)
• Treating Islam as a monolith underlies claims about its inherent unchanging traits. #corroborates (0.80)
• Flattening Islam into one object enabled civilizational judgments against it #corroborates (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 270
• Latent Islamophobia rests on an unspoken civilizational-superiority assumption #corroborates (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 42