US foreign policy judges Muslim peoples solely by alignment with imperial aims
Evidence
Chapter 4 on the foreign policy establishment demonstrated that the “Islamic threat” has been mobilized by both the neocon and realist camps. Muslims, Arabs, Iranians, and South/Central Asians are deemed “good” or “bad” depending on whether they are for or against US aims—in other words, through the logic of imperial ethnocentric racism. While the neocons and liberal interventionists disagree on tactics and strategy, they are united in a shared vision of US global dominance. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 744
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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- Good and bad Muslim designations follow support for US empire (similarity 0.87)
- The good versus bad Muslim label tracks support for US empire rather than facts. (similarity 0.84)
- Both neocons and realists deploy an Islamic threat frame serving shared US dominance (similarity 0.84)
- US policy treated Islam as good or bad depending on imperial alignment (similarity 0.82)
- Accommodation versus confrontation of Islamists produce distinct liberal and conservative Islamophobias. (similarity 0.82)
- US instrumental use of Islamists produced today’s negative Islam frame (similarity 0.82)
- US foreign policy reframed Arab resistance to hegemony as racial terrorism (similarity 0.81)
- US and European hostility to Islam arises from distinct imperial versus racist sources (similarity 0.81)
- US empire-building abroad drives anti-Muslim racism domestically (similarity 0.81)
- US policy factions on Islamism differed in strategy, not hegemonic goals (similarity 0.81)
- US Islamophobia has liberal and conservative wings, both imperial (similarity 0.81)
- US imperial interests, not Islamist actions, determine Islamist ally or enemy status (similarity 0.81)
- Secularized Muslim immigrants become suspect when they oppose US foreign policy (similarity 0.81)
- Realist and neocon foreign policy camps differ in tactics not imperial goals (similarity 0.80)
- Kazi frames Asian Islamophobia only through American policy, not on its own terms (similarity 0.80)