Terrorism is labeled by religion only when the perpetrators are Muslim.

Evidence

The first atrocity was globally condemned as the act of “Muslim terrorists”, while no one ever called the latter an act of “Jewish terrorism”. Those who describe the former atrocity as “Islamic terrorism” were wrong, just as they were right to refrain from calling the latter one “Jewish terrorism”. One of my major arguments in this book has been that neither Islam nor Judaism, as a world religion, is responsible for any of these atrocities. What that gang of militant adventurers perpetrated in Mumbai (or, before that, in New York, London, and Madrid) was a criminal act and demanded to be denounced and prosecuted as a criminal act. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 553

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: the asymmetric labeling of political violence by perpetrator religion—comparing Mumbai to Gaza as twin cases.
• XREF: connects to: Islamophobic ideology selectively attributes violence to religion only in the Muslim case. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 354; Only Muslim violence is read as caused by the perpetrators’ religion — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 366

Related

• Terrorism is a political act, not a religious one (similarity 0.86)
• Attributing terrorism to entire religions is wrong; colonialism’s animus is economic expansionism. (similarity 0.83)
• Only Muslim violence is read as caused by the perpetrators’ religion (similarity 0.82)
• Terrorism is a political act divorced from any religion’s essence (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobic ideology selectively attributes violence to religion only in the Muslim case. (similarity 0.81)
• Terrorism labeling follows political allegiance, not acts of violence (similarity 0.81)
• Identical rhetoric about killing is prosecuted or celebrated depending on the speaker’s religion (similarity 0.80)
• Criminals act from criminality, not from their religion (similarity 0.79)
• Western states reframed non-state political violence as psychopathology to strip it of legitimacy (similarity 0.79)
• The global war on terrorism rhetorically morphed into a war on Islam and Muslims (similarity 0.78)
• Mumbai and Gaza atrocities are comparably criminal but incomparably scaled (similarity 0.78)