Ardern’s gesture defied two decades of War on Terror messaging

Evidence

In that moment, as the world watched, Ardern and Islam were entwined as one. Not in the form of spiritual conversion, but in a powerful political statement that defied everything that the War on Terror zealously broadcast, by way of propaganda and policy, for two decades. She embraced Islam during an impasse when the embattled faith needed it most. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1022

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s global-synthesis goal: situates a single national case against the coordinated worldwide apparatus of War on Terror Islamophobia.