The Muslim world presented in this American media is one contiguous and consolidated territory, gripped by endless war and irredeemable turbulence, a perfect vacuum for cultivating terrorism and terrorists. Its inhabitants are backward and static, nameless and angry, violent and irrational. They are not people to be engaged or judged in individual terms, but rather a faceless bloc that can be explained with sweeping ease and reduced to a fundamental essence.

XREF: Echoes Edward Said's Orientalism and the critique of media dehumanization in coverage of other groups.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 246