To echo Kumar, Islamophobia is empire. Fueled by the War on Terror and its fundamental baseline, which ties Muslim identity to terrorism, a new kind of empire, advanced by a network of governments with distinct anti-Muslim crusades, has taken shape.

DEFINE: Defines Islamophobia not as mere prejudice but as an imperial structure tying Muslim identity to terrorism across a network of governments.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 69