The War on Terror fused the concepts of Muslim and terrorist.

Evidence

In fact, the War on Terror, a child of white supremacy and its never-ending imperial ambitions, flipped the racial script. Although the American crusade claimed the lives of millions of innocents, and continues to claim bodies as you read these words, it propagated the cardinal lie that terrorism is an exclusively Muslim phenomenon. Muslims were not merely raced or stereotyped as terrorists, but the War on Terror made the two words “Muslim” and “terrorism” virtually synonymous. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 935

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Arab terrorist figure predates and evolves into the Islamic terrorist. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 97; Soft power frames the war on terror as an ideological struggle within Islam itself.