Mass protests can forge public links between anti-Blackness and Islamophobia.

Evidence

Ahmed Abuznaid, a Palestinian American lawyer and filmmaker, observed, “This is a moment where a collective growth of consciousness can be had around the Muslim Ban, headscarf bans, and war on Muslim and Arab countries. These protests can spark people to draw important connections between anti-Blackness and Islamophobia and then look to challenge the War on Terror more robustly in the days to come.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1124

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated pairing with Iftikhar’s global-synthesis view of Islamophobia, and to BLM-adjacent analyses of the security state. — connects to: Grassroots coalitions connected NYPD Muslim profiling to black, Latino, and anti-capitalist repression.