Al-Shabaab attacks colored how US agents perceived Muslim humanitarian workers in Wajir

Evidence

We learned that months earlier, members of Al-Shabaab had shown up at the hotel where we were staying. The specter of their past attacks loomed heavy in the courtyard where we sat for dinner, and heavier in the minds of the two strangers who probed how we, a group of Muslim humanitarians, found our way to Wajir—a corner of the world in Kenya more associated with terrorism than tourism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 131

Categorization

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