US empire’s conception of the Philippines as al-Qaeda territory targeted Filipino-Americans domestically

Evidence

Khaled became a regular participant at AAPF’s annual social justice writers retreat, where he drew connections between the new frontier of American imperialism abroad and domestic campaigns of so-called counterterrorism and long-standing systems of racism against Black people and sexism against women. … Those retreats offered freestyle intellectual engagement, and Khaled’s organic observations from those informal debates and observations would later appear in his books and articles. … “Muslims are being racially constructed as terrorists,” he observed during one of our retreats, noting how “the War on Terror was a global imperial project.” These discussions often featured ideas that would later form the thesis of his subsequent publications, including his critically acclaimed first book, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 22 (#expands, via linked claim)

In arguing that Bahlul’s conviction be upheld, a Pentagon lawyer, navy captain Edward S. White, relied on a precedent from an 1818 tribunal. In his thirty-seven-page military commissions brief, Captain White wrote: “Not only was the Seminole belligerency unlawful, but, much like modern-day al Qaeda, the very way in which the Seminoles waged war against U.S. targets itself violate the customs and usages of war.” — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 504 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Imperial conceptions that tag homelands as al-Qaeda territory produce shared persecution; US imperialism abroad and domestic counterterrorism form one interconnected racial system — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 22; Roosevelt equated Muslim unrest in the Philippines with Native American rebellions. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 85 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Imperial conceptions that tag homelands as al-Qaeda territory produce shared persecution #expands (0.85)
• US imperialism abroad and domestic counterterrorism form one interconnected racial system #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 22
• A Pentagon lawyer equated Seminole resistance with modern-day al-Qaeda in a Guantánamo brief #exemplifies (0.75) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 504
• Roosevelt equated Muslim unrest in the Philippines with Native American rebellions. #expands (0.72) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 85
• Al Qaeda threat narratives rest on unspoken racial images rather than evidence #expands (0.70) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 98