White male domestic terrorists escape the racial inquisition Islam receives

Evidence

In 1994, Pipes founded the Middle East Forum (MEF), which publishes the Middle East Quarterly, a pseudo-academic journal warning of the growing threat from Islam and Muslims. He opposed US alliances with Arab states and called for military intervention in Iran. Most notably, Pipes was among the most vocal purported experts who blamed Arabs and Muslims for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings, only to be proven wrong when the government confirmed that the perpetrator was Timothy McVeigh, a disgruntled White Christian male veteran. Tellingly, the media did not conduct an inquisition into the faults of Christianity. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 705

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: asymmetry in how the media interrogates the ideology/religion of the perpetrator depending on race — McVeigh’s Christianity unexamined, while Muslims collectively blamed for same crime.
• XREF: Connects to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s throughline of race/religion signaling, and to Aziz’s broader thesis that racialization of Muslims is gendered and political. — connects to: White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists; White domestic terror produced immigration crackdowns targeting Muslims and Latinos — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 257