In fact, the War on Terror, a child of white supremacy and its never-ending imperial ambitions, flipped the racial script. Although the American crusade claimed the lives of millions of innocents, and continues to claim bodies as you read these words, it propagated the cardinal lie that terrorism is an exclusively Muslim phenomenon. Muslims were not merely raced or stereotyped as terrorists, but the War on Terror made the two words “Muslim” and “terrorism” virtually synonymous.

XREF: Connects to broader scholarship on orientalism and the racialization of Muslim communities in the post-9/11 era, consistent with Edward Said's work on how the West frames the Islamic world.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 935