In line with Islamophobic and literary fictions, the War on Terror crusades in India and China, Myanmar and France, in the western and eastern hemispheres have targeted the very nameless and faceless objects left for dead on Algerian beaches. They are all, and at once, “the Arabs,” the “presumed terrorists,” or the “black dots” seen behind the barrels of guns or the cockpits of fighter jets. Killing an Arab, an umbrella name for Muslims and the peoples callously conflated as one, drives the mandate of the War on Terror: a crusade that unleashes Islamophobia, in distinct yet undeniably crippling forms, across the world today.

XREF: Connects to broader postcolonial and Islamophobia literature, and to critiques of the 'Arab' as a flattened category in Western rhetoric.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1176