Orientalism

I think there’s a strong strain within British liberal thinking, which sees muslims, darkly, through a bar of Fry’s Turkish Delight. They think of muslims as noble savages, and applaud when they find one who is ‘semi-civilised’. Because that’s their conception of muslims, they only really recognise people who meet that stereotype as ‘authentic’. Muslim liberals are just dismissed as ‘unrepresentative’ or Uncle Toms.

Comment by David T, Harry’s Place