The Muslim-terrorism conflation distanced white wars and white terror from scrutiny

Evidence

This conceptual trick had destructive practical ramifications. It distanced wars waged in the name of protecting white civilization from the hellish terror unfolding in Iraq and Yemen, on one hand, and the white supremacist terror inflicted by the likes of Dylann Roof in Charleston, South Carolina—a white man who killed nine Black churchgoers inside of their church—and Brenton Tarrant in Christchurch, New Zealand. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 936

Categorization

• XREF: Dylann Roof and Brenton Tarrant cases parallel the reader’s existing knowledge of Islamophobic moral panics and white perpetrator framing. — connects to: White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists; The War on Terror recycled COINTELPRO-era racial policing tactics against Muslims — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 263; Nearly eight in ten US domestic terror attacks in 2018 were white supremacy motivated. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 231 (+1 more)