War on Terror conditioned the world to accept Arab killing

Evidence

Killing an Arab is a recurring event that the world has become desensitized to. An act so common it does not bear mentioning, and for journalists curating which war victims deserve coverage, a passing occurrence for a “place … like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades.” The War on Terror, and the network of actual and epistemological wars that preceded it, conditioned the world not only to ignore the killing of Arabs, but to accept it. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1177

Categorization

  • XREF: Extends the book’s core thesis about the new crusades as an epistemological framework conditioning acceptance of Muslim/Arab killing; connects to the guilt/innocence framing of war coverage. — connects to: The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists.; The War on Terror made the words Muslim and terrorism virtually synonymous — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 935; The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims (+3 more)
  • corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1177

Broader Connections