The medieval Muslim monster imaginary directly enables modern atrocities against Muslims

Evidence

We arrive, then, at the answer to the question posed at the beginning of this book: How did we get here? The Muslim monster, unfortunately, has a long and storied pedigree, and we see the results in the heinous and inhumane atrocities performed on Muslim bodies at Abu Ghraib, GTMO, and other sites we have not thus far been able to witness (called “Black Sites”). — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 742

Categorization

• XREF: This is the thesis payoff of the entire book — connects the medieval monster figures traced across earlier chapters to their modern materialization in US detention sites. — connects to: Lynch mobs justify murder by merging contemporary Muslims with mythic demons — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1204