The network smeared a secular educator by fabricating guilt-by-association with Muslim groups

Evidence

If that was not enough, she went on to accuse Almontaser of “whitewash[ing] the genocide against the Jews.” Daniel Pipes, who also took part in the campaigns against Massad and the Boston Islamic center, claimed the school should be stopped because “Arabic-language instruction is inevitably laden with Pan-Arabist and Islamist baggage.” The campaign reached fever pitch when the Islamophobes found a picture of a T-shirt with the slogan “Intifada NYC” produced by the group Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM), a local Arab feminist organization. The weak connection between AWAAM and Almontaser is that they share an office with the Yemeni-American association on whose board Almontaser sits. This was all the Islamophobes needed to brand Almontaser as a jihadist. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 531 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The real threat, however, lay not with the importation of feudal values but, more directly, in the presence of dangerous Muslims. A journalist spelled out these connections in a popular women’s magazine by writing about Mumtaz Syed Ali that the retired Toronto lawyer was ‘linked to a “self-described fundamentalist” who is the cleric at a mosque attended by the grandparents of a young man who has admitted his connections to Al Qaeda.’ Terrorist by association (and a long one at that), to stop Syed Mumtaz Ali and the Islamic Institute was to take on terrorism itself. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 387 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Arab-language education was smeared as terrorist by guilt-by-association campaigns — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 670; Tenuous guilt-by-association ties branded a US teacher a jihadist over Palestinian-rights support — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 682; Guilt by the thinnest association sufficed to brand an educator a jihadist. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 531 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Guilt by the thinnest association sufficed to brand an educator a jihadist. #corroborates (1.00) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 531
• Guilt by tenuous organizational proximity replaced evidence in anti-Muslim campaigns #corroborates (0.95)
• Opponents framed Muslim proponents of sharia as terrorists through guilt by distant association. #corroborates (0.90) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 387
• Charity toward expelled coreligionists was read as Arabic-learning conspiracy #exemplifies (0.85) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1094
• Guilt-by-association is the bedrock principle of professional Islamophobia #expands (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 444