The War on Terror globally embedded a racialized terrorist stereotype of Muslims

Evidence

As articulated first by law scholar Natsu Saito, the 9/11 terror attacks and the policies that followed “raced” Muslims as terrorists. The War on Terror and the resulting cascade of crusades examined in this book embedded this form of stereotyped threat globally, and consequently justified punitive action against Muslims by governments, vigilantes, and every societal element in between. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1120

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the concept of ‘racing’ a group as terrorist—the process of ascribing a racialized threat identity through policy.
• XREF: connects to: Invasion-era stereotypes of foreign Muslims double as domestic anti-immigrant racism — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 242; A tiny fraction of terrorist actors drove Arab stereotyping as default terrorists.; White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists (+6 more)