Anti-Muslim terrorism converts Muslim religious observance into recurring fear

Evidence

It was Friday, the holiest of days that would never be the same. Mothers kissed their sons like they might never embrace them again before parting ways. Friends hugged each other tighter. Couples, old and new, held one another longer before bidding a farewell that was supposed to be temporary but that could, in a world where unhinged Islamophobia had mutated into murderous terrorism, be their last. … That is what Christchurch seeded into their heads and what awaits them every Friday. … On that Friday, July 10, 2020, she walked out of the mosque, married before the eyes of God, with her new husband beside her. He was healthy, vibrant, with both legs under him. Dunya was overwhelmed with joy on that Friday, but I knew that Husna crossed her mind. I knew that Christchurch and its dark memory interrupted her joy, if only for seconds, and that the memory of the massacre was there with her. She knew that her faith could mark her and her new husband as targets for a new crop of terrorists who barge into mosques and massacre Muslims. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 893

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The author inserts himself into the wedding scene as narrator, using a Muslim couple’s nuptial joy to dramatize the ongoing terror ordinary Muslims live under since Christchurch.
• SEED: Could be an essay angle uniting the ‘small acts of decorum’ theme with mosque security against domestic terror in Muslim-majority enclaves like Dearborn.