The globalization and democratization of the flow of information allow Muslims nearly everywhere to take note of the currency of Islamophobic sentiments. Most recently, in the Pakistani film Khuda Kay Liye (2007) a sadistic American official begins his abusive interrogation of a Muslim by declaring, “Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims.” The film thus connects this truism— regularly repeated in the United States and United Kingdom—with state-sanctioned violence against Muslims. It is precisely through such a dynamic that Samuel Huntington’s thesis regarding a clash of civilizations—perhaps more extreme in its reception than its author intended—becomes perceived, if not actuated, reality.

XREF: Connects to broader debates about the self-fulfilling nature of the clash of civilizations thesis and how rhetoric shapes geopolitical perception.

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 180