Viewed through an international prism, Floyd's murder offered an ominous metaphor for the power inequities that exist across racial, ethnic, gender, and religious lines across the world, and it connected the killing of a Black man in Minneapolis with the unseen murders of unnamed Muslims in Kashmir, Iraq, and other places the War on Terror has turned into killing fields.

XREF: Connects domestic racial injustice to international power dynamics and War on Terror casualties — a framing that links US civil rights to foreign policy critique.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1113