India labeled Kashmiri independence activists, including a boy’s dead grandfather, as terrorists.

Evidence

It looked like a carefully plotted photo opportunity for the state of India. It could not have been staged better on a set in Hollywood or Bollywood. The young Kashmiri boy, a victim, caught in the crossfire of a war-ravaged land that needed a hero, the state of India, embodied by that soldier who held the boy to his bosom and safeguarded him from “terrorists.” So-called terrorists that included members of the boy’s family, including his dead grandfather, who were given that label because they demanded independence and dignity. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 497

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how the ‘terrorist’ label functions as a catch-all for anyone demanding independence — a core mechanism of the book’s argument.