Racialized framing makes identical resistance heroic for Ukrainians and terrorist for Muslims

Evidence

Within the realm of geopolitics, race, religion, and interests still matter. The three are deeply entwined, particularly in relation to the Middle East and the Muslim world, where a protracted War on Terror renders anybody Arab, Brown, or Muslim a putative terrorist, notwithstanding the righteousness of their struggle or the unhinged imperialism of their opponents. The public imagining of freedom fighter and terrorist, victim and villain is intensely racial, which enables the seeing of everyday Ukrainians who take up arms and throw Molotov cocktails as heroes and powerless Muslims engaged in the very same acts, in pursuit of the same self-determination, as extremists. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1191

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly the shared logic linking national cases that the reader asked for in the guiding questions.

Related

• The freedom-fighter versus terrorist distinction is intensely racial (similarity 0.89)
• Race and religion shape who is seen as freedom fighter versus terrorist (similarity 0.86)
• Western immigration solidarity applied to Ukrainians but not to Muslim refugees (similarity 0.80)
• Refugees from US-war-devastated nations are stigmatized as terror threats while Ukrainian refugees are welcomed (similarity 0.79)
• Refugee receptions during the Ukraine war were racially stratified by whiteness (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ukrainian struggles get David-versus-Goliath framing denied to Muslim self-determination #exemplifies (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1190
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 22
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #corroborates (0.70) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 33
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #corroborates (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• Whiteness is categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism regardless of evidence #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 934
• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 160
• Western media rendered Syrian refugees faceless compared to Ukrainians #exemplifies (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1197