The West invents a familial myth to justify expelling Muslims

Evidence

Casting Out explores the use of these characterizations in the creation of the myth of the family of democratic Western nations obliged to use political, military, and legal force to defend itself against a menacing third world population. It argues that this myth is promoted to justify the expulsion of Muslims from the political community, a process that takes the form of stigmatization, surveillance, incarceration, torture, and bombing. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 1

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the notion of civilization/barbarism binaries found in postcolonial theory (Said, Mbembe on necropolitics). — connects to: The Judeo-Christian concept emerged around WWII partly to expel Islam from the West — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 229
• SEED: Article angle: how the ‘family of nations’ metaphor does ideological work by casting Western states as a protective kinship unit and Muslims as external threat.