National-security rhetoric functions as a proxy for protecting white supremacy

Evidence

That day felt like a call to action. I believe it was the day I first truly comprehended why Muslims were being cast as America’s new principal enemy, the foremost societal menace in that revolving door of racial groups that had to be pummeled to protect national security, or civilization, or Christianity—neatly crafted proxies for whiteness and the political and economic wealth it aimed to maintain and monopolize. It was the day when I decided to fully commit myself and my career to combating the war machine that fed the violence ravaging Muslims near and far. I had not yet heard the word “Islamophobia,” but I understood what it meant, and I understood that its scale was global. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 265

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s parallel reading of Iftikhar’s global-synthesis view on Islamophobia, and the claim that ‘national security’ proxies for race/whiteness resonates with the framing in Kumar’s work on the same shelf.

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• Islamophobia became a globally networked condition spread across states (similarity 0.82)
• The presumption of Muslim terrorism shapes both state discrimination and Muslim response (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror laid foundations for policies white supremacists later claimed as inspiration (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia operates as an empire advanced by cooperating governments with distinct anti-Muslim agendas (similarity 0.81)
• No global war targets transnational white supremacy despite its scale (similarity 0.81)
• Terrorism is not uniquely Islamic but often stems from state negligence and empire. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia operates as an existential state affecting nearly 2 billion Muslims globally (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror globally embedded a racialized terrorist stereotype of Muslims (similarity 0.80)