However, as this book reveals in the coming chapters, these new crusades against Muslims were anything but protective and defensive; instead, they were offensive and violent at their very core. The objective of “countering terrorism” or “shoring up national security” functioned as a modern disguise for a pernicious and hidden campaign: policing, punishing, and persecuting Muslims.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 295