Ukraine coverage exposed the unequal valuation of Muslim versus European lives

Evidence

For Muslims who have endured these colonial and postcolonial wars and the War on Terror crusades of today, Ukraine is a painful blow. It is another reminder that their bodies, their beings, are worth less—and too often, are worthless. It is impossible for them, and those cognizant of the lurid and lucid double standards emanating from the conflict in Ukraine, to dream of a uniform standard applied across race, religion, and the realpolitik in between. It is impossible to imagine a world where the theaters of resistance in the Casbah or Kashmir receive the same light as the struggles in Kyiv. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1207

Categorization

• XREF: The Casbah-Kyiv comparison is a concrete instance joining the book’s global Islamophobia synthesis with the reader’s existing interest in cross-national double standards.