Sherene Razack — Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics

458 published claims from this book.

• A boss’s pointed question about Muslim practices framed a conversion away from Islam
• A Canadian court classified facilitation as a substantial security threat.
• A Canadian security case hinged on an unverified journalist and inferred ideological consistency.
• A citizen-subject ideal underlies repressive assimilation measures across Europe.
• A judge can rule on national security risk while openly acknowledging unlawful detention.
• A man’s profile alone can establish security threat without evidence
• A moral panic arose in Canada even though no law had actually changed
• A Norwegian anti-forced-marriage NGO staged documentary accounts and pressured clients
• A Norwegian anti-forced-marriage NGO’s book shaped EU Council of Europe policy directly
• A Norwegian feminist group awarded a Danish anti-immigration minister for restricting forced marriages
• A Norwegian feminist group literally awarded a bell to Denmark’s anti-immigration minister
• A professor advocating surveillance of all Muslims won US government endorsement
• A propagandistic sample size projection inflated 145 Turkish men into 2813 persons
• A Quebec town with no Muslims publicly outlawed stoning to assert cultural standards
• A routine legal announcement triggered federal panic over unchanged law
• A security detention case turned on website-sourced evidence about camp commanders.
• A state denying Muslims due process cannot credibly claim to protect Muslim women
• A terrorism suspect’s visible normalcy was itself treated as evidence of sleeper-cell membership
• A terrorist taint makes any incidental detail count as confirming evidence
• A tiny proposal triggered a nationwide moral panic about Muslim contamination
• A town with no Muslims publicly banned stoning and acid burning of women
• A workplace challenge to Muslim identity launched Manji’s anti-Islam polemic
• A workplace demand to condemn Islam launched a celebrated critique of it
• Abu Ghraib functioned as a law-exempt concentration camp, not a prison
• Abu Ghraib torture expressed racialized psychic pleasure, not stress
• Al Qaeda threat narratives rest on unspoken racial images rather than evidence
• Al Qaeda’s ideology category condemned people without any group ties.
• Almrei’s credibility was damaged partly by helping an employee find a sponsoring husband.
• An outcry over Muslim rapists proceeded though the rapists were Christian
• Anti-forced-marriage law polarizes communities more than it reduces violence
• Anti-forced-marriage narratives erase colonization from the story
• Anti-immigration rhetoric treats arranged marriage within one’s own ethnic group as proof of coercion
• Anti-Muslim racism conflates Arabs and Muslims despite most Canadian Arabs being Christian
• Anti-Muslim texts conflate arranged marriage with forced marriage to indict migrant culture
• Anti-terror fear normalizes demographic-focused security searching
• Anti-terror practices produce a fortress nation-state and a besieged national subject
• Anti-trafficking policy linked arranged marriage to prostitution
• Anti-violence work pursued through racism strengthens the patriarchy it aims to stop
• Assimilationist discourse fuses directly with the war on terror’s logic
• Assimilationist integration rhetoric is productive for war-on-terror surveillance logic.
• Atrocity photographs oriented Germans to their identity as Aryans by marking racial boundaries
• Attributing immigrant violence to value differences leads to compatibility questions
• Being tough on Muslims secures Western governments’ domestic and international standing
• Britain’s forced-marriage agenda is a cover for excluding black and migrant people
• British Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities’ marriage practices stem from colonial displacement, not cultural difference.
• British Pakistani and Bangladeshi marriage practices stem from colonial labour migration, not culture
• Bureaucratic framing makes racial evictions look like routine legal process
• Camps emerge wherever the rule of law is suspended for a class of people.
• Camps legally exclude inmates from rule of law
• Camps produce white self-understanding as a superior, civil community.
• Canada held five Arab Muslim men indefinitely on a mere-possibility standard without charge
• Canada’s 2002 immigration law detains people merely for possible terror links
• Canada’s five security certificate detainees are all Arab Muslim men held for years
• Canada’s peacekeeping self-image conceals its role in producing the marginality that fuels fundamentalism.
• Canada’s security certificate regime detains non-citizens without due process on suspicion of potential acts
• Canadian courts need only a mere possibility of terrorism to uphold a certificate
• Canadian feminists opposed to faith-based arbitration invoked French secularism as feminist progress
• Canadian media and law cooperated to deny suspected Muslim citizens due process
• Canadian Muslim women’s research linked secular hijab bans to revolutionary progress
• Canadian security certificates require only potential threat, not actual risk
• Canadian security officials convicted a man on his profile alone without detailed evidence
• Canadian terrorism arrests legitimized the Afghanistan war and normalized racialized citizenship distinctions
• Categorizing people as beyond humanity is the elementary operation of sovereign power.
• Challenged racial absolutism escalates violence rather than moderating it
• Chesler frames the Israel-Palestine conflict as one between modernity and stagnant traditionalism.
• Citizens derive belonging from non-citizens’ eviction from law
• Civilizational discourse frames European tolerance itself as a danger to Muslim women
• Claims of unassimilability structure both Nazi ideology and contemporary Islamophobia
• Colonial denigration of Islam drove anti-colonial movements to embrace Islam as resistance
• Colonial emergency law institutionalized its own failure to keep the rule of law
• Colonial emergency law institutionalized violence as moral instruction rather than aberration.
• Colonial emergency violence was framed as moral education of the colonized
• Colonial fear of miscegenation fuels the sexualized violence of imperial settings
• Colonial feminization of subject men aimed at effeminizing and disempowering them
• Colonial martial law used mass violence as moral education of the colonized
• Colonial mass terror ran on cultural mythology, not mere economic rationality
• Colonial pressure on women’s status trapped Algerians in a double bind on reform
• Colonial race thinking ordered both the globe and the nation’s internal hierarchy.
• Colonial violence exceeds economic rationalization because it runs on symbolic myths of savagery
• Colonial violence is narrated by its perpetrators as righteous discipline, not cruelty
• Colonial white womanhood was constituted through race, not gender alone
• Colonial women materialized as subjects through race, not gender.
• Colonial-era calls for Muslim women’s liberation actually aimed at domesticating women.
• Colonizers need mythic savagery to claim civilized identity.
• Concentration camps emerged from colonial administration, not just European totalitarianism.
• Concentration camps emerged from colonial management, not just Nazism
• Concern for women’s honor serves as state rhetoric controlling gendered labor migration
• Contemporary empire operates through legal suspension of law in camps.
• Control of women’s sexuality intensifies when communities feel they are losing control
• Counterterrorism scholarship frames the terrorist as an incomprehensible pre-modern figure
• Courts rely on sleeper-cell and ideology markers when evidence fails
• Cousin marriage among migrants doubles as reproduction control and migration strategy
• Cousin marriage is claimed to prevent integration and create an underclass
• Cousin marriages outside Europe double as migration strategy and sexual control
• Cousin-marriage claims linking immigration to rape lack evidentiary support
• Criminalizing forced marriage deters Muslim youth from seeking help
• Critics frame state anti-racist caution as enabling forced marriage
• CSIS analysts compared Al Qaeda’s persistence to carcinogenic cells.
• Cultural conditions rather than rogue individuals produced Abu Ghraib torture
• Cultural explanations of terrorism erase political and historical differences among perpetrators
• Cultural framing blocks seeing community peril shaping forced marriages
• Cultural framings of Muslim women obscure the actual causes of their suffering
• Culture clash arguments mirror colonial terra nullius doctrine against Palestinians
• Culture clash arguments naturalize capitalism and gender as markers of civilizational progress
• Culture clash narratives frame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a battle between modernity and stasis.
• Culture clash rhetoric frames Islam as an immutable, biology-like mindset prone to barbarism
• Culture should be the last, not first, explanation invoked for behaviour
• Culture-centric condemnation closes off how community peril shapes arranged marriage
• Culture-clash arguments foreclose any possibility of progress outside the West.
• Culture-clash arguments foreclose the possibility of non-Western progress
• Culture-clash explanations attribute immigrant violence solely to culture and erase structural racism.
• Danish family-reunification policy rested on marriage-pattern surveys, not violence statistics
• Defending secularism forces feminists to prove they are still true believers
• Denmark justified marriage-migration restrictions using marriage-pattern surveys, not violence statistics
• Denmark raised spousal reunification age to twenty-four
• Denmark’s 2002 immigration law barred under-24s from sponsoring spouses
• Differential citizenship rights create legally stigmatized insiders treated as outsiders.
• Discourses of disease and contamination remain central to Canadian nation-building against colonized bodies.
• Disease metaphors let governments extend suspicion even to citizen bodies.
• Dismissing anti-immigrant feminism outright also dismisses the real violence it claims to address
• Displaying a murdered Muslim woman’s body anchors white audience solidarity
• Displaying the murdered Muslim woman’s body generates white solidarity and regenerates European identity
• Each era projects a new group as the fixed bodily essence of evil
• Emergency laws that suspend the rule of law are core to neoliberal governance
• European press accounts of honour killings launched legal interventions into Muslim communities
• European racism functioned as a complete system of thought, not mere prejudice
• European secularism emerged by externalizing religious violence through colonialism
• European secularism secured domestic peace by displacing religious violence onto the colonized world.
• European states regulate Muslim citizens’ private lives through gender-equality laws
• European tolerance narratives erase colonization and the material underwriting of generosity.
• Evangelical rescue approaches fail because they never name violence’s structural causes
• Even patriotic Muslims cannot escape security profiling once cultural explanation governs.
• Even stigmatizing anti-forced-marriage laws can yield some internal Muslim gains
• Even the feminist group initially open to Sharia arbitration ultimately retracted that support
• Exception culture rests on knowing who is inside and on suspensions never touching insiders
• Exclusion from citizenship demonstrates sovereignty’s force at low cost.
• Expulsion from rights-bearing community constitutes a different order than mere discrimination
• Faith-based arbitration was already legal before the panic began
• Faith-based arbitration was already legal for a decade before the Sharia panic
• Fear of being called racist deters agencies from intervening in forced marriages
• Feminist activists are as implicated in empire as soldiers are
• Feminist anti-forced-marriage laws enable surveillance of Muslim communities.
• Feminist anti-Sharia campaigns silenced the Muslim women they claimed to protect
• Feminist critique of cultural practices requires attending to intra-group power dynamics and intersecting identities
• Feminist culture-clash rhetoric compounds the death-worlds already awaiting Muslim populations.
• Feminist defense of Muslim women silenced those very women
• Feminist dualisms split women into saved and to-be-saved categories
• Feminist focus on culture obscures how racialized women’s bodies legitimize state surveillance
• Feminist framing can legitimize anti-immigrant policies that obscure the violence they claim to address
• Feminist groups trusted judges over community arbitrators to protect Muslim women
• Feminist interventions framed as saving the victim keep racial hierarchies intact
• Feminist leaders dismissed young Muslim women’s own testimony as false consciousness
• Feminist politics must resist both white supremacy and patriarchy simultaneously
• Feminist positioning becomes a justification for imperial invasion of Muslim lands.
• Feminist reframing of rape changed judicial punitiveness
• Feminist rescue of Muslim women masks the West’s containment of immigrants
• Feminists against faith-based arbitration missed secularism’s imperial mirror of fundamentalism
• Feminists frame state reluctance to intervene as multiculturalism trumping women’s rights
• Feminists have neglected training racist police and service providers
• FIFA banned an eleven-year-old’s hijab citing a soccer equipment rule
• Focusing on culture displaces material colonial history while producing racialized figures.
• Forced marriage is triggered by families fearing loss of control over girls’ sexuality
• Forced marriage is triggered by loss of control over daughters’ sexuality, not immigration policy.
• Forced marriage statistics are infused with Western moral panic and hard to verify
• Forced-marriage discourse frames Muslim culture as feudal and unintegrable
• Forcibly unveiling Muslim women mirrors the territorial seizure of imperialism.
• Formal Western law access requires resources and severing community ties for Muslim women.
• Framing violence as cultural property forecloses understanding of how group peril shapes it.
• France’s headscarf ban obscures real inequalities and transnational state maneuvers
• French secularism’s founding rule still governs its regulation of Muslim populations.
• Global capital concentration in cities creates the very low-wage immigrant labor it then hosts
• Granting the colonized their culture simultaneously trapped them as interchangeable representatives of it.
• Guantanamo detainees occupy the same extralegal status as Nazi camp Jews.
• Guantanamo was a law-free camp for Haitian refugees before the war on terror
• Historical contextualization of Muslim violence is dismissed as anti-American
• Honour crimes involve family participation while crimes of passion are individual acts
• Honour killings are legally framed as cultural violence rather than generic violence against women
• Honour-killing triggers resemble Western domestic-violence triggers
• Huntington attributes complex world conflicts to unchanging civilizational essences
• Huntington claims Muslim proximity to non-Muslims inherently causes violence
• Huntington explained vast conflicts from essentialized, unchanging cultural differences.
• Ideological association with legal groups replaced direct evidence of terrorism
• Immigrant belonging premised on bloodline makes gratitude a catch-22 that can never be repaid.
• Immigrant youth reject both majority and parental framings of arranged marriage
• Immigration security checks now precede and can block asylum hearings in Canada
• Imperial domination is enacted through sexualized racial violence involving both sexes
• Imperialist feminism dismisses feminist critics of colonialism as blinded by Jew hatred.
• In security hearings the terrorist profile replaces solid legal evidence
• Indefinite detention camps for non-citizens have deep antecedents in modern nation-state practice
• Individualist citizenship logic hides group-based harm and privilege.
• Individualist framing has not reduced violence against women in Western countries
• Inglehart and Norris declared gender equality the true axis of civilizational clash
• Insider Muslim critics deploy the same culture clash logic as non-Muslims
• Islam replaced communism as the West’s fear narrative after 1979
• Journalistic coverage paired the sharia debate abolition with stark West-versus-Islam dualisms.
• Justice requires analyzing how social structures constitute and conceal our identities
• Justice requires seeing how ideologies both create and hide hierarchies among people.
• Justice requires understanding how social structures constitute our very selves
• Key identification evidence against a security detainee came from tortured or plea-bargained witnesses
• Labeling a people as pre-modern justifies denying them legal rights.
• Labeling Muslims as premodern licenses intervention without evidence of harm
• Laicite today still operates on an Early Modern state-power principle
• Larger extended Muslim families are portrayed as increasingly imprisoning for women
• Law singles out minority culture to distinguish honour killings from domestic violence
• Legomsky justifies racial profiling by invoking base rates of terrorists within the group
• Liberal philosophers excuse blatant bigotry when the target is Islam.
• Lynch mobs killed festively with meals, Sunday clothes, mutilation, and souvenir photos
• Lynching made whiteness tangible by dissecting Black bodies
• Lynching photographs addressed white audiences, not Black ones
• Lynching photos served as souvenirs for whites, not intimidation for Blacks.
• Lynching requires prior socialization to be acceptable
• Lynching rose as Black people gained more civil rights.
• Lynching violence functions as orgasmic mastery over white fear
• Lynching was collective public ritual expressing white supremacy, not aberrant violence
• Mainstream Canadian feminism saw state judges as protecting Muslim women from their own communities
• Mainstream feminist organizations led the alarm against Sharia arbitration in Canada
• Manji denies Palestinian refugee status rests on UN descent recognition
• Manji portrays Palestinians as either fundamentalist abusers or welfare frauds
• Manji’s history denies that US policy created Taliban conditions
• Manji’s insider critique of Islam was used to legitimate Israeli claims against Arabs.
• Manji’s success with young diasporic Muslims is underread as genuine resonance
• Material exit options, not immigration control, protect women from forced marriage.
• Mbembe’s necropolitics describes populations subjected to the status of the living dead.
• Media violence, hegemonic masculinity, and market ideology together produced Abu Ghraib
• Membership in a listed group justifies presumed future terrorism
• Merely knowing other Arab men with similar histories sealed a man’s fate
• Migration itself disrupts heteronormative arrangements and domesticity norms
• Minor cultural references in white societies trigger automatic claims of European superiority
• Minority cultures must fix gender instantly while majority cultures face no such demand.
• Minority youth reject both forced marriage and the majority’s free-will framing
• Missing race’s role in modernity yields a false story of failed progress.
• Modern law’s abstract individual ideal enables its systematic social exclusions
• Modernity is a contested imperial project rather than a natural achieved state
• Modernity is a contested power project, not a natural state of progress.
• Modernity is a deliberate power project, not a natural unfolding
• Modernity-versus-pre-modernity framing authorizes judgment without establishing details
• Modernity’s ‘disenchantment’ is an ideology constructed by the powerful
• Modernization theory predicted secularization of religion and natural gender equality
• Monster terrorist figures justify suspending fundamental rights and normal legal limits
• Moral panics can reshape law and social policy
• Multiculturalism tolerating cultural difference can block intervention against domestic violence
• Muslim children’s detention drew far less concern than a girl’s sports hijab
• Muslim children’s detention evokes far less official anxiety than veiling
• Muslim critics of Islam are rewarded for dramatizing their own endangered status
• Muslim girl’s hijab ban echoes colonial Algeria’s obsession with the veil
• Muslim women are trapped between their own community’s patriarchs and empire’s bombs.
• Muslim women leaders used census labor data to oppose faith-based arbitration
• Muslim youths experience school and police surveillance as driving harm
• Muslims are depicted as solely responsible for their own political failures, absolving Western power
• National mythologies depend on suppressing contrary histories
• National security secrecy curtails what detainees may see in evidence.
• National security secrecy replaced cross-examination with an oblique analyst, embedding the profile as truth.
• NGOs have become more powerful than states as privatized feminist agents
• Norway considered Denmark’s 23-year family reunification rule to combat forced marriage
• Norway considered stripping subsidies from religious communities who tolerate forced marriage
• Norway criminalized forced marriage without requiring victim consent to prosecution
• Norway’s 2003 proposal required immigrants to swear their marriages were voluntary
• Norway’s moderate framing conceals anti-Muslim agendas similar to Denmark’s
• Norway’s policy shifted blame from individuals to immigrant culture
• Norway’s self-image as individualist and egalitarian frames Muslim difference as cultural clash.
• Norwegian anti-immigrant advocates frame forced marriage as rape requiring criminalization
• Norwegian anti-racism as defined identity forecloses acknowledgment of actual racism.
• Norwegian authorities expected Muslim communities to self-police forced marriage
• Norwegian media co-produce three stock figures that let Norwegians imagine superiority.
• Norwegian officials initially doubted whether media reports of forced marriage were exaggerated
• Norwegian policy linked arranged marriage to sex trafficking, inverting honor-claims
• Norwegian policy texts assume original citizens’ superior values must be taught to immigrants
• Norwegian policy texts presume immigrants need tutelage in European citizenship.
• Norwegian self-image as anti-racist makes the racism accusation deeply destabilizing
• Official accounts framed Abu Ghraib abuse as corrupt individuals, not policy
• Official anti-forced-marriage policy blames coercion on minority parents’ ignorance of Norwegian values.
• Official reports attributed Abu Ghraib abuse to a few weak soldiers under stress
• Only one feminist organization initially supported faith-based arbitration with safeguards
• Ontario’s Arbitration Act already permitted religious family-law arbitration before the Sharia controversy
• Opponents framed Muslim proponents of sharia as terrorists through guilt by distant association.
• Opposing faith-based arbitration outright may have fed rather than countered the moral panic
• Palestinian occupation is a necropolitical regime merging siege and biopower
• Palestinian refugee status is reframed as an Arab-created refusal crisis, not an Israeli cause
• Palestinian refugee status is reframed as manufactured and self-inflicted
• Perpetrators’ photographs of atrocities demonstrate widespread public approval and impunity
• Photographs do not merely reflect social hierarchies but actively produce them
• Photography was used to manufacture visual proof of Dreyfus’s degeneracy
• Post-Cold War conflict was framed by Huntington as civilizational cultural clash
• Post-independence Norway built its national identity on being the generous savior.
• Pre-existing media tropes, not the actual event, primed Canada’s Sharia panic
• Pre-existing narratives, not actual events, primed the moral panic over Sharia
• Pre-modern Muslim identity centered on religion rather than geography or nation
• Prisoner abuse functions as a publicly enacted sexualized ritual of racial violence
• Pro-Israel writers recast colonial encounter as culture clash to void Palestinian claims
• Profiled asylum seekers face a catch-22 where both truth and lies condemn them
• Profiled suspects enter legal spaces stripped of law’s protections
• Profiles shifted from statistical targeting tools to proof of guilt itself
• Profiling collapses the evidence of a link into the proof that the link exists
• Psychology shapes terrorism’s method selection as much as its onset.
• Public awards and sales reward Muslim critics who perform defiance of their own community.
• Race gives content to the category of threat that justifies suspending rule of law.
• Race makes state claims about latent Muslim violence seem credible
• Race thinking becomes racism only as a political weapon
• Race thinking becomes racism only when annexed to a political project
• Race thinking covertly persists in ‘values’ discourse about the war on terror
• Race thinking divides humanity into violent and nonviolent groups requiring separate legal regimes
• Racial domination is sustained by terror of Black agency and desire for oneness.
• Racial hierarchy and legal exception are mutually reinforcing in evictions.
• Racial profiling derives its coherence from narrative, not evidence
• Racial profiling in security now means exile from political community, not just discrimination
• Racial profiling that denies due process amounts to political exile
• Racial terror is the fundamental mediator of colonial power
• Racial terror, not rational administration, has long secured colonial power
• Racial violence encodes disavowed homoerotic desire between white and black men
• Racial violence functions as a homoerotic affair between white and black men.
• Racial violence functions as a literal orgasm restoring white masculine mastery.
• Racialized assumptions substitute for evidence in finding detainees non-credible
• Racialized legal categories are contradictory yet persist as common sense
• Racialized reasoning’s coherence rests on narrative force, not logical sense
• Racialized threat narratives justify suspending due process for designated bodies
• Racialized youth violence can mark division within shared masculine culture
• Racism determines both who becomes a prisoner and what they become
• Racism hinges on denied libidinal attraction to the racial other
• Racism involves a libidinal attraction that is disavowed as repulsion.
• Racism itself shapes how British Muslims understand arranged-marriage membership
• Racism recruits non-racists by promising utopia through selective killing
• Racist anti-violence strategies strengthen rather than weaken patriarchy in embattled communities
• Racist arguments succeed politically by claiming the ground of gender equality.
• Racist narratives of intrinsic Muslim savagery make indefinite detention seem legitimate.
• Reading Abu Ghraib photos as homophobia obscures the racialized torture of the prisoners
• Reading social oppression as interlocking systems, not discrete ones, reveals empire’s violence
• Reading torture photos as homophobia erases the racial and gendered reality of the victims
• Real cultural differences can anchor racial myths despite legitimate observation
• Refugees facing security certificates have strong incentives to lie on asylum claims
• Rejecting faith-based arbitration outright squandered a chance to safeguard Muslim women
• Rescuing women from culture splits women into saved and to-be-saved categories.
• Rewarded Muslim dissidents ignore dissent inside the Islamic world entirely
• Rights suspension under security ideology is masked as law rather than violence
• Routine racial violence reflects ordinary participation, not aberrant soldiers
• Rural American hunting culture normalized viewing Iraqis as sub-human prey
• Rural working-class Americans frame racialized violence as routine sport
• Saving Muslim women legislation legitimizes surveillance of Muslim communities
• Saving persecuted women preserves the West’s image of generosity while policing most immigrants
• Secular and religious categories mediate identities and shape people’s experiences
• Secular law regulates violence rather than eliminating it
• Secular rule-of-law appeals mask the expulsive marking of Muslim bodies
• Secularism and feminism rhetoric obscure the imperial interests behind Muslim evictions.
• Secularism functions as a governance technique that marks Muslims as unfit for citizenship
• Secularism secured European peace by exporting religious violence to colonies.
• Secularism serves as cover for imperial interest in marking Muslims pre-modern
• Secularist feminists tied the French headscarf ban to revolutionary progress
• Security certificates infer terrorist identity from association and history rather than acts
• Security certificates rest on unprovable claims about irrational religious fanatics
• Security courts substitute racialized story-lines for evidence when cases lack corroboration
• Security documents conflate general Islamic jihad with Bin Laden’s specific campaign
• Security hearings abandon legal evidence standards through unexamined lawlessness
• Security hearings punish latent identity-based capacity rather than committed acts
• Security officials frame terrorism through the metaphor of a disease that adapts like cancer
• Security officials judged Almrei’s profile rather than verified specific conduct
• Security officials portray Muslim extremists as timelessly patient and unchanging
• Security officials treated ideological agreement as equivalent to support for violence.
• Security profiling renders individual conduct irrelevant once group affiliation is established
• Sexualized racial violence grants both mastery and forbidden intimacy
• Sexualized torture functions as racial terror that constitutes imperial identity.
• Sexualized torture marks the Arab male as emasculated and outside humanity
• Shipping-container death rates for Afghan detainees approached 90 percent
• Sleeper-cell logic previously justified Japanese American internment
• Society’s primary function is to dam and channel desire flows.
• Sovereign violence is shared by citizens as a right to punish outsiders
• Sparse mislabeled photos were enough to discredit a Holocaust exhibit.
• State protection of Muslim women can backfire by fueling anti-Muslim racism
• State racism frames killing others as purifying one’s own race
• State repression produces both fortress nations and besieged national subjects
• State-defined religious tolerance replaced princely religion in early modern Europe
• States authorize violence against people cast outside the political community
• States favor cultural separatism claims over redistributive injustice claims in multiculturalism.
• Stigmatized groups are perceived as nomadic threats even when settled in their homelands.
• Surveillance-based anti-violence strategies do little to stop violence against women.
• Suspicion in security hearings targets who people are, not what they do
• Systematized racial bias loses its character as prejudice and becomes routine state practice
• Systems of oppression constitute each other rather than merely crossing paths
• Terror is the primary mediator of colonial hegemony.
• Terrorism evidence against suspects rests on vague profile categories
• Terrorism studies explains violence through individual psychology rather than politics
• Terrorism studies explains violence via family dysfunction and sexual failure, not politics.
• Terrorism studies situate the cause of violence in the terrorist psyche, not politics
• Terrorist profiling substitutes for solid evidence in security hearings
• Terrorist-by-association logic reduced a retired lawyer to a distant cleric’s connection.
• The accusation of racism triggers identity crisis in Norwegians committed to a kindness ethos.
• The autonomous-citizen ideal renders group-based injustice and reparations invisible
• The autonomous-individual ideal of citizenship structurally prevents acknowledging group-based harms.
• The camp concept extends to whole Muslim immigrant communities under the exception
• The camp form has become a permanent, legally authorized exclusion from political community.
• The camp logic of suspended rights now generalizes across immigration and security law
• The CIA treated photos as a designed shame-multiplier in interrogation.
• The clash-of-civilizations lens recodes sexualized torture as generic information-gathering.
• The court read a detainee’s patience and hunger strikes as evidence of extremism.
• The culture clash argument functions as a modern terra nullius, denying Palestinian land claims.
• The culture of exception assumes outsiders are identifiable and lawless regimes will spare insiders.
• The culture-clash argument structurally replicates terra nullius denial of indigenous claims.
• The culture-clash narrative allows racism to masquerade as feminism
• The exception operates as a governance practice rather than a simple inside-outsider binary.
• The fantasy of unveiling the veiled woman underwrites Western claims to modernity
• The forced-marriage debate’s individual-versus-collective polarity misrepresents youth experience
• The honour-crime versus crime-of-passion distinction encodes a racial hierarchy as gender progress
• The honour-killing debate falsely frames individual freedom as opposed to collective
• The host-guest metaphor grants hosts moral authority to set rules for guests.
• The imperative to save Muslim women functions as a colonial governance tool
• The label ‘racist’ wounds Scandinavians by threatening their kindness-based identity
• The liberal individual-free-of-community ideal has not reduced violence against women
• The monster-terrorist figure normalizes spaces where humans hold no rights
• The orgasm of racist violence proves the perpetrator real and the victim unreal.
• The prophet’s marriage to a nine-year-old was common custom in three religions
• The right to exclude is how the weakened nation state demonstrates its remaining power.
• The security certificate case proceeded without direct evidence against Almrei
• The sexualized Abu Ghraib imagery drew on familiar pornographic and racist iconography.
• The sleeper cell concept casts racialized bodies as hidden disease
• The sleeper cell functions as hidden disease requiring regulation of the marked body
• The Spanish Inquisition’s interrogations prefigured modern racial profiling by reconstructing life histories
• The state indicts based on unverifiable speculation about religious change while ignoring equal counter-speculation.
• The state’s chief expert witness was unacquainted with readily available evidence undermining the profile
• The trio of dangerous Muslim man, imperilled woman, and civilized European drives anti-Muslim law
• The veiled woman fantasy lets European men know themselves as modern, rational, and possessive.
• The volume of torture photos undermines the few-bad-apples explanation.
• The West invents a familial myth to justify expelling Muslims
• Torture at Abu Ghraib was coldly systematic rather than the work of sadistic individuals
• Torture photos enact a psychic intimacy that both creates and threatens racial hierarchy
• Torture photos reveal psychic intimacy and fantasy, not just physical coercion
• Torturers frame themselves as civilizing savages and so not accountable
• U.S. sanctions logic quietly restructured Canadian citizenship by nationality and descent
• Unprovable sleeper-cell claims rest on racialized images of irrational religious men
• US military prisons abroad and domestic prisons now function alike as zones without law
• US secrecy and detention practices rest on the colonial logic of unruly natures
• Violence against racial others functions to convince perpetrators of their own superiority
• Welfare colonialism and anti-racist fear are blamed for harming immigrant women
• Western anti-violence legislation buys states leeway to surveil Muslim men
• Western critics conflate forced and arranged marriages to mark Muslims as feudal
• Western feminism’s emancipatory desire is complicit with colonial power
• Western feminist narratives can hijack genuine women’s-rights concerns for racist ends
• Western feminist rescue politics serves empire by marking Muslims as premodern
• Western identity is constructed through contrast with Muslim bodies.
• Western liberal values function as a dividing line that masks empire’s material arrangements.
• Western peacekeeper violence is collectively performed, photographed, sexualized, and then excused
• Western peacekeeper violence shows a recurring pattern of collective, recorded, sexualized abuse
• Western sanctions killed thousands of Iraqi children who remain uncounted.
• Western states fund religious separatism over redistributive justice claims
• Western states prefer cultural-separatism claims over redistribution-based anti-racist claims
• Western states simultaneously suspend Muslim men’s rights and claim to protect Muslim women
• Western surveillance of Muslims worsens the very patriarchal violence it claims to fight.
• Western women’s emancipated status depends on representing Muslim women as their devalued others.
• Western women’s emancipated status depends on representing Oriental women as devalued others
• White lynch crowds were festive and photographed with trophies
• White male identity depends on a barrier against both femininity and blackness.
• White masculinity is constituted against and through desire for the racial other
• White supremacist sexual violence against Black bodies fuses racial domination with sexual excitation.
• White women participated in racialized sexual torture, contradicting their exempt status.
• White women’s torture-sex acts expressed forbidden desire while reasserting white supremacy over Arab men
• White women’s violence against people of colour is race-coded, not gender-coded, in empire
• Whites remain individuals while Arabs are read as violent groups
• Women’s bodies serve as the terrain where anti-Muslim and anti-multicultural politics are fought
• Working-class women’s military torture participation exposes feminism’s myth of female moral superiority
• Zero-risk logic justifies detention despite a 4 percent recidivism rate
• Zero-risk logic justifies indefinite detention even when reoffending is rare