Muslim self-determination struggles are demonized where Ukrainian resistance is praised

Evidence

Palestinians, Yemenis, and Kashmiris embodied, for decades and still, the very resistance put forward by the Ukrainian people. They, too, put their lives on the line against global and regional powers. They, too, wielded makeshift weapons to protect their “land, loved ones, and way of life”—the trilogy of motivations that world leaders have cited over and again in response to the gallant Ukrainian resistance. But their stories are ignored, and even worse, demonized by states, media outlets, and War on Terror discourses that bind the two. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1189

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘land, loved ones, and way of life’ trilogy is a quotable compression, though the point itself is heavier.