Bestializing or dehumanizing opponents is the final moral-disengagement locus enabling harm

Evidence

The final locus in the suspension of moral control centers on how opponents are viewed. Treating others as subhuman, demonic, or animalistic beings absolves perpetrators of moral self-sanctions through lack of any sense of shared humanity. To kill with moral impunity, soldiers in warfare strip their enemies of humanity and bestialize them. Societies that marginalize and maltreat certain classes and races of people diminish them as lesser beings. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2982

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s existing claims about Islamophobic/racist policy rationalization and dehumanization of out-groups. — connects to: Moral damage from evildoing socialization persists and keeps individuals susceptible to future harmdoing; Escalated dehumanization attributes demonic or animal traits when mere subhumanization fails.; Bestial and disease metaphors for enemies have ancient pedigree (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2982