Exile constitutes the most intimate form of Islamophobia for Rohingya Muslims.

Evidence

Fatima’s old home exists only in her head, and her new home is that ocean that haunts her from within and surrounds her very being. She is an exile, which Edward Said articulated is “strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” … Exile is endless sadness and perpetual flux. And for Rohingya Muslims, the most intimate form of Islamophobia is exile. A state of being that is short of living, that stands on the other side of ethnic cleansing, displacement, and for too many to name and count, death. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 650

Exile is endless sadness and perpetual flux. And for Rohingya Muslims, the most intimate form of Islamophobia is exile. A state of being that is short of living, that stands on the other side of ethnic cleansing, displacement, and for too many to name and count, death. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 651

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames exile — via Edward Said — as a defined state of being that the author argues is Islamophobia’s most intimate form for Rohingya.
• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s global-synthesis goal by extending the Islamophobia framework to Myanmar/Rohingya as a non-Western national case.
• DEEPTHINKING: Redefines Islamophobia not as discrimination but as a terminal condition of displacement and near-death—an inversion of Western framing of the concept.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 650; Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 651