Revenge, not facts, redirected the War on Terror toward all of Islam

Evidence

Any law school professor will tell her students that every case is dictated by the facts. But facts, in that irrational case of empire, were initially irrelevant and later crushed by the blind zeal for revenge. Revenge that unfolded on the streets and on our television screens and was followed by a neoconservative regime’s design to marshal that zeal as fuel for the next phase of American empire. In this phase, the enemy was not a terror outfit but the whole of Islam and its nearly 2 billion global adherents. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 214

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