Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis gave the terror war a crusade framing

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This book seeks to reclaim the name of those earlier campaigns, to demystify the longstanding stereotypes surrounding them, and to examine how those stereotypes are manufactured and deployed globally against Muslims today. Furthermore, The New Crusades satirically challenges the trope that the global War on Terror is a religious standoff between Christian (and today, Judeo-Christian) values and Islam, and more broadly, a spiritual war between good and evil—a platitude echoed by politicians and pundits in Europe, Asia, and places beyond and in between. This longstanding binary, which maps Christianity as good and Islam as evil, was modernized by Samuel P. Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations, which oriented Islam and its adherents as a threat to the West. A new world worldview that gave a popular face and political force to the belief that the War on Terror is a contemporary extension of the original Crusades. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 59

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• XREF: connects to: Post-Cold War conflict was framed by Huntington as civilizational cultural clash — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”: The…, 174; Huntington’s clash thesis erases power asymmetries among Muslims and fuels racism. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 241