The War on Terror structurally controls which Muslim deaths become knowable

Evidence

Fifty-one Muslims died on March 15, 2019. They risked dying a second time in those fateful hours and days after the massacres. … The War on Terror, beyond the tanks and the drones, is an epistemological crusade. One that, ironically, only humanizes Muslims and makes them the familiar subject of news headlines when they are doing what Islamophobia warns us about: carrying out terrorism. But when Muslims die, it buries their bodies under the news coverage, deep in the abyss of forgetting, in the black hole that millions of Muslim victims gunned down by unjust wars or white supremacist terrorists are thrown into. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 972

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s parallel reading of Iftikhar on global Islamophobia: this ‘epistemological crusade’ frame parallels Iftikhar’s analysis of whose deaths are humanized. Also resonates with the book’s stated theme of Islamophobia as a coordinated global condition.
• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that Muslims die twice — once physically, once epistemically when media coverage erases them as individual subjects while humanizing their killers — is a dense, paradigm-shifting formulation of the asymmetrical humanity framework.