Khaled and his family fled war to land in one of the poorest, and most segregated cities in the United States. He experienced firsthand how American imperialism abroad delivered him into the belly of the beast, where systematic forms of discrimination faced by poor, Black, and Brown people are taken as natural facts of life.

XREF: Connects to discussions of how US foreign policy and domestic inequality are linked, a thread running through critiques of empire at home.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 23