The Times framed Islam solely through threat to American interests
Evidence
The interesting point is that the scholars were trying to subdivide “Islam” into its more important components, whereas the Times recomposed these components into powers either “inimical” or “friendly” to United States interests. The net result of the symposium was exasperation, since it was clearly implied in the last set of Times questions that persuasion and logic could not work and therefore force might have to be used as a last resort. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 242
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the learned directive’s point that communicative action and rational persuasion get displaced when a civilization is framed as an enemy — parallel to Said’s larger argument on representation by power. — connects to: The Times framed peasant communists as stupid folk needing fascist remedy — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1723