Here, it is revealed that the virus renders one emotionless; the infected are zombie-terrorists with no emotions, no morality—beings solely focused on the destruction of human life. … This is where the film gets really interesting. Ben tells Carol that it is no use to resist, that "they" offer a new world absent of pain, war, and suffering. "We were wrong to fight them," Ben argues, insisting they offer "a world without war, poverty, hate. . . rape," then suggesting, "You know it's true. Our world [that is, their world] is a better world." This vision of the world is very millenarian—the old will be wiped out and a new order will take place. Like the vision of Islamicate Universalism, everything will be just and peaceful.

XREF: Parallels millenarian revolutionary rhetoric generally, and the text explicitly links it to Islamicate Universalism's promise of a just and peaceful new order.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 725