The dark rapist figure legitimizes the Western liberator’s central role

Evidence

The figure of the dark rapist, like that of the African cannibal, catalyzes the narrative role of the Western liberator as integral to the colonial rescue fantasy. In the case of the orient, it also carries theological overtones of the inferiority of the polygamous Islamic world to the Christian world as encapsulated by the celibate priest of the monogamous couple. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 619

Categorization

• XREF: The dark rapist as causal catalyst for white rescue maps directly onto the reader’s core thesis: the Muslim monster is manufactured to justify the West’s own role.
• SEED: The juxtaposition of ‘celibate priest of the monogamous couple’ against the polygamous Muslim world is a sharp article angle: how Christian sexual virtue was constructed in opposition to an imagined Muslim hypersexuality.