State definitions of terrorism excluded white domestic bombers like McVeigh.

Evidence

The United States was locked in a “clash of civilizations” with Islam, prominent academics theorized and news anchors reported, pushing the state to enact laws and policy that aligned with this binary. Never mind the racial or religious identity of the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, who represented the demographic that commits the vast majority of terror attacks on U.S. soil. Stereotypes, not statistics or specifics, mattered most to Orientalists, proponents of the clash of civilizations, and Islamophobes who would beat the war-on-terror drums in the era to come. Terrorism, for the state, was not defined generally or neutrally, but focused exclusively on Islam and Muslims. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 260

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s Ernst (psychology) thread — the selective perception/confirmation bias that made whites invisible as terrorists. — connects to: Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 260

Broader Connections

• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters #corroborates (0.75)