The liberal case for the war on terror abetted later Islamophobia

Evidence

In its civilizational bluster, “Old Europe”–type criticisms of dissent abroad, and persistent disregard for the negative consequences of U.S. meddling, Terror and Liberalism is a pitch-perfect document of the liberal case for the war on terror. Although the book stakes a claim as an explanatory metanarrative for modern history, it was less than prescient about how the Bush doctrine—with its disregard for fundamental rights and freedoms—paved the way for renewed U.S. exceptionalism, paranoia, race thinking, and Islamophobia in the years after it was published. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 123

Categorization

• XREF: Names Berman’s Terror and Liberalism as a touchstone for the ‘hard’ liberal defense of the war; the reader can cite Morey’s archival role for her own chapter. — connects to: Liberal security politics amplified right-wing Islamophobia against the NYC Islamic center — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 659; Liberal Islamophobia rejects clash rhetoric yet retains imperial paternalism toward Muslims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 512