Antiterrorism frames enemies as aberrant individuals rather than political claimants.

Evidence

First, there is a difference in the way that the enemy is conceived. Whereas the first paradigm regards insurgents as the “representatives of deeper claims at the heart of society” (and it is important to understand the reasons for this, in order to counteract them effectively), the second one, by labeling them “terrorist,” regards them above all as “aberrant individuals,” dangerous figures, quite simply mad, or as incarnations of pure evil. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 279

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s framing of the ‘twisted logic’ of impunity and depoliticized killing. — connects to: Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims.; Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enforcement targeted Muslims despite neutral wording. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 259; Categorizing one’s enemy as sub-human legitimizes increased violence and justifies violation of basic human rights. — Dehumanization (+1 more)

Related

• Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims. (similarity 0.83)
• Counterinsurgency is politico-military while antiterrorism is policing-oriented. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim polemics function to define their authors’ identity rather than describe Islam. (similarity 0.81)
• Counter-radicalization conflates perpetrators’ religion with causes of terrorism. (similarity 0.81)
• Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enforcement targeted Muslims despite neutral wording. (similarity 0.80)
• Radicalization theory was designed to serve counterterrorism policy, not truth (similarity 0.79)
• Covert policies couched as counterterrorism provoked no protest while overt anti-Muslim rhetoric did. (similarity 0.79)
• Radicalization discourse was built to serve counterterrorism policy, not science. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-terror and immigration policies become conflated in framing Muslims as foreign enemies (similarity 0.78)
• The War on Terror trained people to see extremism as exclusive to Islam (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims. #corroborates (0.85)
• Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enforcement targeted Muslims despite neutral wording. #exemplifies (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 259
• Anti-Muslim polemics function to define their authors’ identity rather than describe Islam. #corroborates (0.70) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 124