Imperial discourse changes enemies rather than merely destroying them

Evidence

Orientalism disfigured Islam into an utterly unrecognizable form and replaced its bona fide dimensions with a thin caricature. Orientalism was Orwellian, and as the author poignantly observed in the disturbingly prescient 1984, “We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 273

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the Shanghai Cooperation’s framing techniques and general ‘enemy construction’ literature the reader tracks.
• BMF: The Orwell line about changing rather than destroying enemies is a staple of dystopian discourse, though no specific BMF-eligible work matches — suggesting 1984 itself as a reading-list candidate.