The War on Terror reconfigured individual Muslim and American identity itself.

Evidence

I felt that feeling for the first time on the morning of September 11, 2001, the day that spawned the War on Terror and that feeling it permanently seeded within me. From that Tuesday onward, and the countless days in between, that feeling has swelled in line with the twenty-year-old “war” and evolved into a forlorn companion I have come to know as well as I know myself. In fact, that feeling has become part of who I am—as a Muslim, an American, a scholar, a public intellectual, a son—every dimension of an identity contoured by it since that tragic Tuesday in September more than two decades ago. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 35

Categorization

• XREF: Emotional-epistemological framing of 9/11 as an identity-shaping hinge resembles the trauma-memory framing the reader tracks for living under global Islamophobia.