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Cliches of Muslim Women in the West and Their Own World by Wijdan Ali – Instant download!

Cliches about the Orient and its women have imposed themselves with considerable force on the popular imagination of the West and have been perpetuated in Europe since the Middle Ages. The projection of evil onto marginal or ineffectual groups within a society has always been an easy and useful method to find scapegoats. Jews in Medieval Europe were stereotyped and tried for a number of fictitious crimes such as poisoning wells, killing children for their blood, and crucifying and cannibalizing their victims.