Yet The Submission presents us with a quandary in that "tactical" interventions are being made by two antithetical factions. Rival groups, proand anti-Mo and his design, square up at the site; Muslim women's hijabs are pulled off; and Muslim communities organize patrols in their defense. Considering all this in the context of the broader post-9/11 clampdown on Muslims, we might say that Islamophobic power "strategies" can still deploy disruptive "tactics," encouraging a "superstitious" investment in Ground Zero to further agendas of Muslim marginalization and even expulsion that are already well advanced elsewhere.

XREF: Connects to de Certeau's strategy/tactics distinction the author is invoking.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 278