Trump abandoned the good-bad Muslim distinction but Biden restores it
Evidence
Most significantly, Trump eschewed the “good Muslim, bad Muslim” approach (with the exception of Saudi Arabia) and opened the door to right-wing Islamophobia. Biden has rejected this approach. We might therefore expect a return to liberal Islamophobia and the accommodationist approach. However, Biden has stated his intention to continue Trump’s policy to withdraw military forces from the “forever wars” and to use drone warfare instead. While he has promised to take a more critical stance toward Israel, this will likely involve a return to the Obama era during which Israel was supported with significant financial and military aid. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 544
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Speaks to the reader’s question about whether channels still operate under the Gaza war — Kumar’s framework suggests the liberal-covert channel persists in the Biden/Gaza era.
Related
- Biden’s return to liberal Islamophobia continues imperial drone and Israel policies. (similarity 0.88)
- Liberal Islamophobia and right-wing racism are interchangeable imperial instruments (similarity 0.81)
- Trump abandoned the US claim of neutral brokerage toward the Palestinians (similarity 0.80)
- Right-wing and liberal Islamophobia both serve imperial racism through exclusion and conditional inclusion. (similarity 0.79)
- Biden premised returning to liberal empire rather than ending imperial policies (similarity 0.79)