Islamophobia now operates cross-racially through non-Western imperial conquests

Evidence

These Muslim exiles in Istanbul exist on the fringes of a foreign land where a government’s warm welcome could be chilled by winds of change that can, in an instant, send them packing. They exist at the intersection of world history where their homelands are sites of new imperial conquests spearheaded not by European, American, or white supremacist crusades, but Islamophobia of a different color. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1225

Categorization

• XREF: Synthesizes the global view the reader seeks alongside Iftikhar — internal empires (India-China) as Islamophobic actors parallel to the Western ones earlier in the book. — connects to: Liberal Islamophobia includes Muslims only on imperial terms — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 89
• ADDENDUM: This epilogue’s framing of Muslim exiles as survivors-rising-to-write echoes the resilient-subject concern threaded through the reader’s broader project.