The war on terror label granted states license to persecute Muslims
Evidence
As Leyla says, “Everyone persecutes Chechens.… Not only Chechens but Russian Muslims everywhere. Putin persecutes them and Mr Bush encourages him. As long as Putin calls it his war on terror, he can do with the Chechens whatever he wishes, and no one will stop him” (9). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 328
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Direct echo of Hamid’s Changez noting how the war on terror names enemies into being — the reader’s core comparison.
Related
- Counterterrorism law serves as a pretext to suppress Uyghur identity. (similarity 0.80)
- The War on Terror fused the concepts of Muslim and terrorist. (similarity 0.79)