The War on Terror created a global shared Muslim anticipatory trauma.

Evidence

That feeling, which at first felt foreign but evolved into familiar companion, is hardly mine alone. Rather, it is one that lives within and walks alongside 2 billion Muslims all over the world. It, on Tuesdays and days before and beyond it, rumbles and pulsates like that mobile device on my dining table signaling the occurrence of another disaster in a city that raised my father and houses so many family members and friends. It stalks us, from afar, then comes menacingly close when disaster strikes. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 36