US imperialism abroad and domestic counterterrorism form one interconnected racial system

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s reading of Iftikhar for the global-synthesis view — this passage names that synthesis (imperialism abroad joined to domestic counterterrorism) explicitly. — connects to: US imperial wars abroad drive the racial exclusion of Arab Americans at home. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 236; US wars abroad activate racial borders that target domestic minorities — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 536; Obama-era counterterrorism propaganda used multicultural imagery to mask imperial policy — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 614 (+7 more)