Abstract:This article begins by arguing that a motivation to tarnish Islam as a religion has framed the foundations of Western imagery of the Muslim world. It consists of a negative cultural portrait that depicts Islam as a threat to the ontological security of the West. Such a representation is centered around an epistemic conviction that Islam and violence are inextricably intertwined with each other because the religion is still sedimented in medieval barbarism and as a civilization, it is yet to graduate out of the… Show more
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