The War on Terror deliberately deepens civilizational divides rather than repairing them

Evidence

The War on Terror is not invested in mending cracks, bringing people together, or restoring clairvoyance. Rather, it seeks to widen the cracks and deepen the crevices, to turn people against one another, to distort religious and civilizational divides and keep us all bound to war and blind to reality. … The War on Terror has put a violent new spin on the longstanding narrative that Muslims are a demographic threat wherever they live. The world, for Muslims everywhere, is spinning more and more furiously thanks to the hands of Islamophobia. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 168

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes Iftikhar’s account of the War on Terror’s racialized framing of Muslims as an enemy class — a natural link the reader is tracking across both books.