Juxtaposing contending ideologies lets thrillers move beyond war-on-terror binaries.

Evidence

The “clash of civilizations” rhetoric therefore became dominant in the aftermath of 9/11 and was the ideological basis for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well domestic attacks on Muslims and Arabs. For a while it appeared that the neocons were unstoppable—but they overplayed their hand. During its first term, the Bush administration built a “coalition of the willing” to invade Iraq, rejecting criticisms from allies it derogatorily labeled “old Europe.” The war on Iraq, however, did not go the way the neocons wanted it to. Instead of greeting US forces as liberators, the Iraqi people resisted and rejected US hegemony. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Liberal thrillers contest states of exception that engulfed Muslim subjects.; Thrillers can contest Islamophobic truisms by transgressing constructs of essential difference.; The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash (+1 more)

Related

• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash (similarity 0.91)
• The Kite Runner’s binary oppositions calcify an America-versus-Afghanistan divide (similarity 0.88)
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks (similarity 0.87)
• Revolutionary rhetoric can mask active counterrevolutionary alliances (similarity 0.86)
• Grand civilizational rubrics invent false collective identities that enable deadly conflicts (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims (similarity 0.84)
• Even realist think tanks opposed the clash of civilizations narrative because al-Qaeda weaponized it. (similarity 0.84)
• Popular ‘us versus them’ discourse can be recoded to support the power bloc (similarity 0.84)
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain (similarity 0.84)
• The clash of civilizations narrative is a constructed frame, not a given fact (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural brilliance can coincide with and mask political and military decadence (similarity 0.82)
• The War on Terror emboldened populists to scapegoat Muslims and seize power (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror taught the public to equate extremism with Islam. (similarity 0.80)
• Bush’s war declaration framed the enemy as Islamic and civilizational. (similarity 0.80)
• Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis came to frame the entire War on Terror. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #corroborates (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash #corroborates (0.45)