Obama’s drone campaign killed civilians in five Muslim-majority countries

Evidence

The force of Obama’s words crumbled along with new fronts of Orwellian aggression. While unfurling spellbinding oratory smoke screens, Obama deepened the wounds of the War on Terror and opened new ones. Behind the veil of progressivism, he deployed a nonstop fleet of drones that killed scores in Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan—all Muslim-majority countries. These attacks flouted common principles of international law and wiped scores of innocent Muslims from the face of the earth. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 300

Categorization

• XREF: Anchor case for the global-Synthesis reading alongside Iftikhar — the drone war as the empirical core of Obama-era Islamophobia. — connects to: Barack Obama authorized killing US citizens abroad via drone without trial — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 508; Drone strikes killed up to 9,000 people including 2,000 civilians and 500 children. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 531