"If you call somebody a terrorist, you can do anything imaginable or unimaginable to them," shared Abed Ayoub, a Washington, DC–based immigration lawyer who has helped several Rohingya refugees resettle in the United States. "Especially in places like Myanmar, where the value of Muslim life is next to nothing."

XREF: Connects to historical patterns of dehumanizing labels preceding atrocities — genocides in Rwanda, Holocaust, etc.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 662