A shared dehumanizing logic links War on Terror crusades across hemispheres

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• Totalitarian movements justify present terror by reckoning in millennia rather than generations (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. (similarity 0.80)
• Ideological scientificality overrides factual reality in totalitarian action (similarity 0.80)
• Global fiction contests Islamophobia by refusing the clash-of-civilizations model (similarity 0.79)
• A remarkably uniform anti-Saracen ideology persisted through centuries like a catechism (similarity 0.79)
• Discourses form coherent wholes through interlocking statements sharing strategy (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel’s master-slave dialectic drew on news of the Haitian Revolution (similarity 0.79)
• Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.78)
• The War on Terror unites disparate national crusades against a single depersonalized Arab object (similarity 0.78)
• Totalitarianism adopted tribalism for its isolating value even against its own doctrines (similarity 0.78)
• Totalitarian leaders use humanitarian cliches freely once extermination is underway (similarity 0.78)
• Orientalist definitions can override a thinker’s own human sympathy for real suffering (similarity 0.78)
• The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.78)
• A Muslim character’s refusal to explain can be a political contestation, not mere rigidity (similarity 0.78)