The idea that all Muslim men are naturally violent—blowing up buildings, planes, and markets, and willingly killing themselves in the process—is often explained as an innate Islamic impulse, a product of race, ethnicity, or religious impulse, at times cast as an “Islamic rage” that emerges from sexual repression and frustration.

SEED: Could build an essay examining how reductive racial-religious explanations mask structural and political drivers of violence, and how this trope functions ideologically.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 49