US foreign policy reframed Arab resistance to hegemony as racial terrorism

Evidence

Starting in the late 1960s, America’s growing hegemony in the Middle East faced stiff resistance by Arab nationalist rulers and a predominantly Muslim populace. The consequence was the centering of the irrational and bloodthirsty Arab in the racialization of Muslims in the United States. America’s foreign policy in the Middle East over the following four decades would delegitimize Muslims’ political aspirations for self-determination by characterizing their resistance as indicia of racial inferiority, savagery, and most saliently—terrorism. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 607

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: how state foreign policy objectives recursively shape the domestic racial category of a minority group within the metropole.
• XREF: connects to: US imperial wars abroad drive the racial exclusion of Arab Americans at home. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 236; US and Israeli conservatives jointly framed the global Arab terrorist threat — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 237; Postwar modernization theory and the Israel partnership produced the Arab terrorist race — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 103 (+2 more)