The Kite Runner’s binary oppositions calcify an America-versus-Afghanistan divide

Evidence

The “clash of civilizations” rhetoric therefore became dominant in the aftermath of 9/11 and was the ideological basis for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well domestic attacks on Muslims and Arabs. For a while it appeared that the neocons were unstoppable—but they overplayed their hand. During its first term, the Bush administration built a “coalition of the willing” to invade Iraq, rejecting criticisms from allies it derogatorily labeled “old Europe.” The war on Iraq, however, did not go the way the neocons wanted it to. Instead of greeting US forces as liberators, the Iraqi people resisted and rejected US hegemony. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421; The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash; West-versus-Islam doubt binaries are projections of scholarly desire (+3 more)

Related

• Juxtaposing contending ideologies lets thrillers move beyond war-on-terror binaries. (similarity 0.88)
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash (similarity 0.87)
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks (similarity 0.85)
• Popular ‘us versus them’ discourse can be recoded to support the power bloc (similarity 0.84)
• Grand civilizational rubrics invent false collective identities that enable deadly conflicts (similarity 0.84)
• The clash of civilizations narrative is a constructed frame, not a given fact (similarity 0.81)
• Revolutionary rhetoric can mask active counterrevolutionary alliances (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Even realist think tanks opposed the clash of civilizations narrative because al-Qaeda weaponized it. (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural brilliance can coincide with and mask political and military decadence (similarity 0.81)
• The clash-of-civilizations paradigm serves to prolong dominance (similarity 0.79)
• The Kite Runner’s binary moral scaffolding pits fair-minded America against self-destructive Afghanistan. (similarity 0.79)
• The Bush administration’s Iraq war justifications rested on three anti-Muslim stereotypes (similarity 0.78)
• Bush and Clinton administrations resisted the neocon anti-Islamic-terrorism agenda (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #corroborates (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421
• The flip-side image of Muslim-as-friend is equally coercive and nuance-blind as enmity #expands (0.70)
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash #corroborates (0.65)
• West-versus-Islam doubt binaries are projections of scholarly desire #corroborates (0.60)
• Postsecularism reduces literature to a tool in the clash of civilizations #expands (0.60)