State corruption inflicts terror comparable to acts blamed on Muslims

Evidence

The culprits of the Beirut explosion were not Muslim terrorists or “Islamists,” but the slow-plotting terror of government kleptocracy, corruption, and neglect. Terror of a less conspicuous sort, enabled by former empires and abetted by foreign banks. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the global-synthesis goal — ordinary governance failure as the real ‘terror’ displaced onto Islam, connects to how states weaponize the Islamophobic prism.