The same national monuments are menacing to Muslims who are their targets

Evidence

Only blocks away stood hallmarks of freedom that inspired patriotism in the Americans I envied from my place on the margins. Structures that for me and other Muslims who set foot in this city or have felt its might from afar are every bit as menacing as they are majestic. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 84

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A walking-tour device: each landmark read twice, once through the dominant gaze and once through the targeted gaze — could frame a short fiction of a Muslim guide leading a tour of their own capital.
• XREF: connects to: Militants frame mosque destruction as purifying humiliation and unifying their nation. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 414