State leaders can model new engagement with Muslims despite inheriting the War on Terror

Evidence

Ardern could not end a War on Terror started by men, or preempt the terror it incited in white supremacist vigilantes who preyed on mosques in her country and Muslims beyond it. But as prime minister of a nation that endured the lethal reckoning of the War on Terror’s ugliest spawn, she could steer a new course for her nation and offer a model for others to emulate. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1046

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• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how states learn Islamophobic techniques — here the positive inverse: states learning non-Islamophobic engagement.