The War on Terror unites disparate national crusades against a single depersonalized Arab object

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: Synthesizes the book’s whole global catalogue — India, China, Myanmar, France — into one shared logic, exactly the global-synthesis claim the reader tracks alongside Iftikhar. — connects to: US counterinsurgency logic fused foreign and domestic Arabs into one terrorist threat