Political language weaponizes selective concepts to serve power.

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

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Clarifies the mechanism by which an old Orientalist vocabulary primes the ground for new anti-Muslim crusades.

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