Nearly 13 million Muslims killed since the War on Terror remain entirely unremembered
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. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 974
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: The 13 million figure deserves verification against other estimates of War on Terror death tolls.
Related
- Muslims become memorable in Western media almost only as perpetrators of violence (similarity 0.93)
- War on Terror casualties remain nameless, uncounted, and unremembered on a mass scale (similarity 0.88)
- War on Terror victims remain largely unknown and uncounted. (similarity 0.87)
- Media coverage humanizes Muslims as perpetrators but erases them as victims (similarity 0.84)
- The War on Terror structurally controls which Muslim deaths become knowable (similarity 0.81)
- Terrorists receive instant biographical prominence from the media coverage they engineered (similarity 0.80)
- War on Terror discourse makes suspecting Muslims feel rationally normal (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Terrorists achieve media immortality while their Muslim victims remain anonymous
#corroborates(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1011