However, the War on Terror raged onward. But new fronts of understanding were developing—and new languages, robust languages of resistance and reclamation, possibility born from pain and trenchant ideas born in the trenches of war, were being crafted to arm the targets of this War on Terror. Weapons that foreshadowed that it too could, and would be, toppled one day.

SEED: An essay could explore how marginalized groups craft counter-languages that eventually dismantle dominant political frameworks — the trajectory from pain to reclamation to overthrow.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 378