For many Muslim children, survival itself is an everyday crusade

Evidence

Mohamed was locked in the cracks of that earth before he was born. He could not see the world beyond his young brown eyes and those earthly crevices that confined him. Mohamed’s crusade was a simple one: to remain alive. It was a struggle that began and ended with avoiding that fall into those gaps carved deep in the earth below his feet—cracks that had swallowed so many others before him. This daily jihad, an everyday struggle, was an ungodly one for a radiant boy with a holy name. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 90

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• ADDENDUM: Parallels the rhetorical re-deployment of ‘crusade’ and ‘jihad’ that animates the sacrifice essay’s treatment of worldview-imposing language.