Political language about Islam and terror is crafted by power to enable conflict.

Evidence

Political language—as Orwell spelled out and Edward Said incisively oriented in relation to war, terror, and Islam—is a tool exacted by power. Selectively and strategically. The old auteurs of Orientalism crafted new concepts and phrases that scorched the earth for the crusades to follow, while their ideological offspring disavowed the word “Islamophobia” while disseminating its most damaging stereotypes to new audiences across the political spectrum. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 321

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Iftikhar’s framing that Islamophobia is a coordinated global discourse; also aligns with Said’s Orientalism thesis which the reader already synthesizes. — connects to: Soft power frames the war on terror as an ideological struggle within Islam itself.; Power struggles plus moral absolutes make the Western-Muslim conflict enduring
• DEFINE: Establishes political language as a weaponized tool explicitly built on Orwell and Said’s frameworks.