Black Lives Matter protests inspired hope of ending the War on Terror.
Evidence
If popular unrest could be mounted against white supremacy and its symbolic and systemic purveyors, then perhaps a similar front could be launched against one of its most ominous modern strains—the War on Terror. More than twenty years after its creation, it was the Black Lives Matter protests and the collateral possibilities for progress they inspired that seeded the belief that a global war that seemed never ending could be slowed, or even stopped. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1157
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Category: Causal Relationships
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- Mass protests can forge public links between anti-Blackness and Islamophobia. (similarity 0.83)
- Labeling BLM protesters terrorists is a weapon to strip legitimacy from grievances (similarity 0.81)
- Black Lives Matter protests resonated across Muslim-majority countries. (similarity 0.81)
- Surveillance mechanisms used on Muslims are also deployed against BLM activists (similarity 0.79)