Racial construction frames Muslims as terrorists through imperial war. [causal]
"Muslims are being racially constructed as terrorists," he observed during one of our retreats, noting how "the War on Terror was a global imperial project."
XREF: Connects to theories of racialization, Orientalism (Said), and scholarship on the War on Terror as a racializing project.
Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 22