The War on Terror made the words Muslim and terrorism virtually synonymous

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 directly to Iftikhar’s global-synthesis argument and fits the reader’s goal of reading across national cases. — connects to: The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists.; The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash; Islamophobia worldwide shares the core link between Islam and terrorism (+11 more)
• CANDY: The core ‘Muslim equals terrorism’ pairing is a concise, tweetable summary of the book’s thesis.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 935

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.85)
• Terrorism and extremism are treated as exclusive to Islam #corroborates (0.75)
• Clash of civilizations framing located terrorism’s cause within Islam itself #expands (0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 266
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims #expands (0.65)
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash #expands (0.60)
• Islamophobia worldwide shares the core link between Islam and terrorism #expands (0.60)
• Islam-terror association embedded in national security laws changed Muslims’ experiences #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 20
• The War on Terror weaponizes an invented Orientalist past to victimize Muslims today #expands (0.60)
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #expands (0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421