War on Terror discourse makes suspecting Muslims feel rationally normal

Evidence

These images, and the ideas they conjure, reify the notion that Muslims are the enemy of civilization. They deepen the cruel reality that during the War on Terror, it is entirely rational and normal to perceive Muslims through the linear lens of terrorism. That vision, that idea, is repeated over and again by lawmakers, politicians, pundits, news anchors, musicians, and characters on television, in film, and in virtually every other medium. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 282