The global war on terrorism rhetorically morphed into a war on Islam and Muslims

Evidence

9/11 and the use of the phrase “[global] war on terrorism” became a justification for a war on Islam and Muslims used by some Western governments, media, and Islamophobic authors and websites. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 43

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The global war on terror ideology originated in Israeli religious-right domestic politics — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 445; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”