If there is one truth that the War on Terror has unearthed and incessantly reaffirms, it is that Muslims are newsworthy only when villains, and seldom when victims. The scowls of Osama Bin Laden and the faces of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists live on in our minds. While none—absolutely zero—of the nearly 13 million Muslims killed in the years before, and especially after, the War on Terror commenced claim even a small part of our memory.

SEED: A sharp essay angle: the selective newsworthiness of Muslim victims versus villains, drawing on the striking statistic that nearly 13 million Muslims killed remain unnamed in public memory.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 974