‘Wahhabism’ functions as a blanket slur blurring many unrelated movements.

Evidence

Opponents of the movement and what it stands for label it as “a misguided creed that fosters intolerance, promotes simplistic theology, and restricts Islam’s capacity for adaption to diverse and shifting circumstances”. The term “Wahhabism” has also become as a blanket term used inaccurately to refer to “any Islamic movement that has an apparent tendency toward misogyny, militantism, extremism, or strict and literal interpretation of the Qur’an and hadith”. — Wikipedia contributors, Wahhabism, 11

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that the term has drifted from a specific movement into a catch-all for almost any strict or militant Islamic tendency.
• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s Islamophobia notes — the mechanism by which a specific label expands into a general marker of suspicion.