Repeated Islamophobic truisms can become self-fulfilling through state violence against Muslims

Evidence

The globalization and democratization of the flow of information allow Muslims nearly everywhere to take note of the currency of Islamophobic sentiments. Most recently, in the Pakistani film Khuda Kay Liye (2007) a sadistic American official begins his abusive interrogation of a Muslim by declaring, “Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims.” The film thus connects this truism— regularly repeated in the United States and United Kingdom—with state-sanctioned violence against Muslims. It is precisely through such a dynamic that Samuel Huntington’s thesis regarding a clash of civilizations—perhaps more extreme in its reception than its author intended—becomes perceived, if not actuated, reality. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 180

Categorization

• QUESTION: What mechanism turns discourse into actuated reality? The passage gestures at it but doesn’t fully unpack the causal chain.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘frightened subject’ reading — the truism’s function shifts from description to authorization of violence.