Islamophobia functions as a more potent global weapon than military force

Evidence

Islamophobia is more powerful than any military weapon. More deft than any drone. More menacing than any soldier. It is the War on Terror’s most potent weapon, its slowly exploding atomic bomb, which sweeps across the globe as governments keen on unseeing the world as Washington sees it feed off its blind hunt for boogeymen that loom larger in their heads than in reality. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 152

Categorization

• XREF: Frames Islamophobia as a weapon — connects to the sacrifice-article theme of ideology/structure outlasting brute force, and to the Spanish Armada lesson that ideas beat fleets.