Islamophobia operates as an existential state affecting nearly 2 billion Muslims globally

Evidence

But again, those irrational episodes of fearing the worst, then bracing for it, is what characterizes the Muslim experience in a world remade by the War on Terror. A world where Islamophobia is far more than just an enterprise of intellectual examination or a racial project to be diagnosed and then dismantled—but even deeper in the marrow, an existential state of being that dwells in the core of nearly 2 billion people across the globe. A feeling sowed and spread by an “imperial” campaign, as it has been incisively branded by Kumar, that feeds the distinct crusades persecuting Muslims across the world. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 51

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the book’s core reframing: Islamophobia is not merely bias or a racial project but a felt existential condition produced by an imperial War on Terror.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 51