The monster-terrorist figure normalizes spaces where humans hold no rights

Evidence

A ‘Jihadist,’ as the ‘Islamic terrorist’ is called, is forever unable to escape the marking of his religion, culture and history. If Jihadists exist in a space where judicial protections no longer make any sense, their eviction from the law is argued on the basis that the West must necessarily be vigilant when such monsters are let loose on the world. The terrorist as monster draws on a number of Orientalist images, as others have shown. Significantly, monster terrorists lie forever beyond the law, and through them we become accustomed to the idea that there should be places where human beings have no rights. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 78