Terrorism is not uniquely Islamic but often stems from state negligence and empire.

Evidence

While news outlets and pundits pushed us to blame the catastrophe on the familiar list of Muslim networks, in line with War on Terror impulses, the truth revealed that global crusade’s fundamental lie: that terrorism is a uniquely Islamic enterprise. Sometimes, terror is a consequence of corruption, negligence, and as this book illustrates, religious and even secular ideology. More than often, terror is the outcome of old empires and their modern successors, chiefly the United States—my country—which occupies the citadel of neocolonial wars on terror and the new crusades they have spawned. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 32

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs naturally with the reader’s parallel reading of Iftikhar on the Islamophobia industry — same debunking of the ‘terrorism equals Islam’ equation from a complementary angle.