The War on Terror’s framing made slain Muslims themselves bear guilt for their deaths

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Anning’s words reveal, in explicit and unfiltered terms, what drove his white countryman Tarrant to shoot down those fifty-one Muslims on March 15, 2019. Both believed that Muslims, by virtue of practicing a faith branded “uncivilized” and “savage” by the War on Terror, were irredeemably guilty. They were guilty of adhering to a faith oriented as antithetical to civilization and inimical to whiteness. Even when slain in one of the deadliest terror attacks in the entire region, Muslims were to blame. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 920