The War on Terror trained people to see extremism as exclusive to Islam

Evidence

The man made no mention of Christian or Jewish fundamentalism, or the Hindu supremacy marching through India, or the weaponized secularism driving modern French nativism, treating the terms “fundamentalism,” “extremism,” and their modern cousin, “terrorism,” as inherent and exclusive to Islam. In fact, these descriptors were not only exclusive to Islam, but synonymous with it. But how could I blame him for what the War on Terror, and the three presidential administrations steering it, had taught him? — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 362

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Soft power frames the war on terror as an ideological struggle within Islam itself.