Associating a Muslim population with terrorism required no evidence of ties

Evidence

Virtually overnight, Bush’s visit to Beijing and the War on Terror landscape converted a native population in northwest China into a satellite faction of terrorists. The lack of evidence connecting Uyghur Muslims to terror networks did not matter, nor did their justifiable grievances against Beijing. Only their faith and fight for independence mattered, and Islam was enough to mark the whole population as terrorists. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 606

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Echoes the demarcation-by-faith logic that runs through the Complaints article’s account of how dress/faith identifiers get criminalized; here the identifier is Islam itself, not apparel.
• XREF: Parallel to official Islamophobia chapters where faith alone justifies suspicion regardless of evidence — the reader’s global-synthesis lens. — connects to: Muslim radicalization discourse was built to serve counterterrorist policy, not to explain terrorism.