The War on Terror targets nameless objects across India, China, Myanmar, and France alike.

Evidence

In line with Islamophobic and literary fictions, the War on Terror crusades in India and China, Myanmar and France, in the western and eastern hemispheres have targeted the very nameless and faceless objects left for dead on Algerian beaches. They are all, and at once, “the Arabs,” the “presumed terrorists,” or the “black dots” seen behind the barrels of guns or the cockpits of fighter jets. Killing an Arab, an umbrella name for Muslims and the peoples callously conflated as one, drives the mandate of the War on Terror: a crusade that unleashes Islamophobia, in distinct yet undeniably crippling forms, across the world today. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1176

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s stated goal: synthesizing Islamophobia as a coordinated global condition across multiple national cases, read alongside Iftikhar.
• SEED: Angle: the literary genealogy of the War on Terror—how The Stranger’s nameless victim prefigures the drone-strike target.