American counterterrorism doctrine traveled to distant Muslim regions as empire

Evidence

Virtually everything that I saw signaled to me that Wajir was a world away from Washington. Its red earth clashed with the gray urban concrete of the District of Columbia, and the slowly plodding men and headscarved women had a distinctly different look and rhythm than the suits rushing about the American capital. Wajir was not Washington, until the latter descended on it in the form of the two agents seated next to us. In the words of Malcolm X, Plymouth Rock landed on them. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 143

Categorization

• SHARE: The Malcolm X inversion of “Plymouth Rock landed on them” is a line worth sending to anyone into rhetorical history.
• CANDY: A punchy reframe of colonial encounter suited to casual telling.
• XREF: connects to: The US borrowed its domestic counter-radicalization program from the UK; US military schools taught future leaders a genocidal total-war doctrine against Muslims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 749; Manufacturing Muslim enemies serves U.S. state formation and empire.