US elites pathological labeled Arab nationalists resisting Western interests
Evidence
John Foster Dulles, as Eisenhower’s secretary of state, called Nasser and other Arab nationalists like him “pathological” for their suspicion of the West and referred to the nationalist Iranian leader Mohammad Mossadegh as “a wily Oriental.” Eisenhower believed that Arabs were incapable of democratic self-rule. He said: “If you go and live with these Arabs, you will find that they simply cannot understand our ideas of freedom and dignity … They have lived so long under dictatorships of one form or another, how can we expect them to run successfully a free government?” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 380 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
John Foster Dulles, as Eisenhower’s secretary of state, called Nasser and other Arab nationalists like him “pathological” for their suspicion of the West and referred to the secular nationalist Iranian leader Mohammed Mossadegh as “a wily Oriental.” Eisenhower himself believed that secular nationalists were little more than Oriental despots. He said: “If you go and live with these Arabs, you will find that they simply cannot understand our ideas of freedom and dignity… . They have lived so long under dictatorships of one form or another, how can we expect them to run successfully a free government?” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 207 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Foreign policy elites across camps share the aim of US hegemony — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 461; US officials pathologized anti-Western nationalists as psychologically or racially unfit.; US officials pathologized Arab nationalists as unfit for democracy — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 207 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- US officials pathologized Arab nationalists as unfit for democracy
#corroborates(0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 207 - Eisenhower and Dulles pathologized Arab nationalism as incapable of self-rule
#exemplifies(0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 380 - US presidents racialized Arabs as incapable of understanding freedom
#corroborates(0.88) - US foreign policy reframed Arab resistance to hegemony as racial terrorism
#expands(0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 607 - Politicized perception of Arabs stems from prejudice, Zionism, and lack of neutral cultural position
#expands(0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 99 - US cold-war policymakers racialized Arabs as inherently prone to extremism
#complicates(0.78)