moral injury

is an offense against one's affect and habitus. It is not just metaphorical or psychological... it is a social fact. In secular idiom, however, this moral injury is rendered unintelligible making for an incommensurable divide.

The offense caused by the cartoons, then, was not an offense against an abstract moral or juridical injunction such as 'thou shalt not make images of Muhammad.' It was an offense against Muslims' affect and habitus, even Muslim bodies (849). In this way, when some Muslims view the cartoons, they experience them as acts of violence or violation to their persons. The cartoons are not just an idea. They are weapons that cause real injury, or what Mahmood calls 'moral injury.' Muslim moral injury is not just metaphorical or psychological... it is a social fact. In secular idiom, however, this moral injury is rendered unintelligible (842). Hence the incommensurable divide.' (net)

moral injury, n.All

moral injury