Martha Nussbaum, noted US commentator and thinker, has pointed out that ‘the creation of virulent masculinities is perhaps a part of the project of nationalisms of the European variety.’ Emulating this project other communities, are also creating masculinities of the European sort. She notes that Israel and India are both seats of construction of this notion of virulent masculinities, both directed at Muslims, classified in colonial discourse as ‘martial races’.
