George Floyd’s murder symbolized global power inequities linking US policing to war-on-terror killings

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Viewed through an international prism, Floyd’s murder offered an ominous metaphor for the power inequities that exist across racial, ethnic, gender, and religious lines across the world, and it connected the killing of a Black man in Minneapolis with the unseen murders of unnamed Muslims in Kashmir, Iraq, and other places the War on Terror has turned into killing fields. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1113

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• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s global-synthesis goal: the author is unifying domestic anti-Black police violence with transnational War-on-Terror killings into one optic, parallel to Iftikhar’s framing.
• SHARE: The specific ‘Little Mogadishu’ neighborhood in Minneapolis — the resettlement geography connecting Somalia war to US policing — is worth sharing with someone mapping diaspora and police-violence intersections.