Media conditioning makes the world accept the killing of Arabs as routine.

Evidence

Killing an Arab is a recurring event that the world has become desensitized to. An act so common it does not bear mentioning, and for journalists curating which war victims deserve coverage, a passing occurrence for a “place … like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades.” The War on Terror, and the network of actual and epistemological wars that preceded it, conditioned the world not only to ignore the killing of Arabs, but to accept it. Like Meursault, walking across a colonized city while his emotions whirled within, we are numb to it. Numb to the killing of Arabs, Muslims, and nonwhite peoples in lands plundered by new crusades on the margins of Europe, America, and Western citadels of “civilization.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1177

Categorization

• BMF: The Meursault reference in this passage is a direct literary allusion to The Stranger (Camus), not one of the listed fiction titles, so no BMF match applies; but the desensitized-narrator mode echoes The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s atmosphere of numbed violence.
• XREF: Connects to Iftikhar’s global Islamophobia synthesis the reader is reading alongside; this passage states the shared global logic the reader is tracking.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that war coverage conditions desensitization—and that citation of ‘decades of conflict’ rationalizes rather than explains—is a dense, paradigm-level claim about how news media normalize state violence, well beyond a factual observation.