Islamophobia reduces diverse Muslim individuals to a blanket presumption of terror suspicion

Evidence

This baseline forms what is now widely known as Islamophobia, a term that spurs the unseeing of Muslims like Mohamed and Kalsoum for who they truly are, in exchange for the blanket cover of terror suspicion. … Neither age nor impoverishment, emaciated bodies that have worked too late in life and still-developing minds that have lost innocence too soon, mean more in this war than religion. Islam, a faith undressed of its rich meaning and normative complexity, has been cloaked with a blanket of suspicion that now envelops its adherents. Anywhere and everywhere. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 148

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out Beydoun’s operative definition of Islamophobia as a reductive lens that renders real Muslims unseeable.
• XREF: connects to: A tiny fraction of terrorist actors drove Arab stereotyping as default terrorists.; Anti-Muslim racism collapses diverse names, skin tones, dress, and nations into one imagined enemy.