The War on Terror racializes all Muslims as a boundless enemy to justify war

Evidence

Anti-Muslim racism operates in complicated and incongruous ways for a reason. Especially since 9/11, and under the name of the War on Terror, by constructing an enemy of the state as porous and boundless, as anywhere and everywhere, the U.S. justifies waging war against diverse people and regions all lumped together as “Muslims” whether or not they are Muslim or share a particular country of origin, political view, or appearance. Even as this rationale of racializing those who are deemed “Muslim-looking,” it is Muslims across the United States who are the primary targets of policing under the War on Terror policies. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 540

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates Rana’s and Aziz’s framing of Muslim racialization as serving imperial war-making — this is the exact bridge passage the reading purpose asks for. — connects to: The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists.; Racializing enemies as boundless Muslims justifies war against diverse peoples worldwide.; The War on Terror globally embedded a racialized terrorist stereotype of Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1120 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.97)
• Constructing the enemy as boundless justifies war across all regions and peoples #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 552
• Racializing enemies as boundless Muslims justifies war against diverse peoples worldwide. #corroborates (0.93)
• The War on Terror globally embedded a racialized terrorist stereotype of Muslims #corroborates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1120
• Being called ”terrorist” in violence racializes the Muslim independent of actual religiosity. #corroborates (0.90)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #expands (0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• The ‘war on terror’ is a racial war rendered invisible through denial #expands (0.85)
• The War on Terror functions as an imperial project spreading Islamophobia globally #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 43
• Revenge, not facts, redirected the War on Terror toward all of Islam #corroborates (0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 214
• The War on Terror shifted Muslim Americans down the racial hierarchy away from whiteness #expands (0.82) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 463
• Treating all Muslims as suspect constitutes cultural racism by homogenization #expands (0.82)
• War on Terror racism treats Muslim culture as an immutable natural cause of violence #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 542
• Radicalization theories racialize Muslims by presuming Islam drives them to violence #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 630
• War on Terror homogenized Muslims the way earlier eras homogenized Native Americans and Africans #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 232
• Muslims are racialized by reframing their religion as a violent ideology. #expands (0.80)