The war on terror fought a parallel battle over the nature of reality

Evidence

In other words, at the same time that the Bush administration was launching its ill-fated war on terror, another even more fundamental battle was taking place: a battle over the nature of reality itself. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 203

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

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• War on Terror propaganda preceded and outpaced the war itself. (similarity 0.82)
• Official government strategy documents framed the War on Terror as a battle of ideas. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim sentiment predated and undergirded the War on Terror (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror spawned numerous successor wars worldwide (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror taught the public to equate extremism with Islam. (similarity 0.81)
• Counterinsurgency war can itself constitute the terror it claims to fight (similarity 0.81)
• Revenge, not facts, redirected the War on Terror toward all of Islam (similarity 0.81)
• Reagan’s war on terrorism established the preemptive warfare doctrine Bush later used. (similarity 0.81)
• The war on terror suspended ordinary empirical rules in favor of political expediency (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror fused the concepts of Muslim and terrorist. (similarity 0.81)
• The global war on terrorism rhetorically morphed into a war on Islam and Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• The liberal case for the war on terror abetted later Islamophobia (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror was deliberately marketed globally from its start (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror trained people to see extremism as exclusive to Islam (similarity 0.80)
• Juxtaposing contending ideologies lets thrillers move beyond war-on-terror binaries. (similarity 0.80)