Muslims become memorable in Western media almost only as perpetrators of violence

Evidence

If there is one truth that the War on Terror has unearthed and incessantly reaffirms, it is that Muslims are newsworthy only when villains, and seldom when victims. The scowls of Osama Bin Laden and the faces of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists live on in our minds. While none—absolutely zero—of the nearly 13 million Muslims killed in the years before, and especially after, the War on Terror commenced claim even a small part of our memory. The only Muslims we tend to remember are the culprits of violence, the craven dictators, the warmongers, and the terrorists. Most lastingly, the terrorists. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 974

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘13 million Muslims killed’ figure is a striking documentary number for the global-synthesis chapter on Islamophobia as a planetary condition, parallel to Iftikhar’s framing.
• QUESTION: Worth verifying the ‘13 million’ figure and its time frame — this is a large, potentially contested number that the reader may want to cross-check against other sources.