The terrorist label licenses unlimited violence against Muslims in Myanmar.
Evidence
“If you call somebody a terrorist, you can do anything imaginable or unimaginable to them,” shared Abed Ayoub, a Washington, DC–based immigration lawyer who has helped several Rohingya refugees resettle in the United States. “Especially in places like Myanmar, where the value of Muslim life is next to nothing.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 662
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The ‘terrorist label licenses violence’ mechanism connects to how the same label functioned in the US and other Muslim-minority contexts in earlier chapters.