Post-Cold War global conflict is legitimized by racial, cultural, and religious prejudice

Evidence

In the end, Issa and Abdullah are “rendered,” and Annabel, Tommy, and Bachmann are left dazed and defeated on an empty Hamburg street. The novel exposes the ingrained prejudice, based on race, culture, and religion, that has replaced the ideological struggles of the old Cold War at the heart of modern global conflict. A Most Wanted Man is at its strongest when charting those narratives that can be spun to make people believe in a pervasive Islamic threat. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 336

Categorization

• XREF: Direct hinge to the reader’s purpose: this taxonomy of racial-cultural-religious prejudice replacing ideological Cold War binaries is exactly the contesting-vs-reinforcing axis to apply to Hamid and Naqvi. — connects to: Post-Cold War conflict was framed by Huntington as civilizational cultural clash — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”: The…, 174
• DEEPTHINKING: The observation that fiction’s power peaks when charting narratives spun to manufacture belief in threat — rather than in showing counter-evidence — is a dense, counterintuitive claim about how Islamophobic fiction actually persuades.