Western leaders’ outreach pledges to Muslims consistently fail to match their actions

Evidence

In the turbulence of the aftermath of the attack, Ardern was shaping a new model of engagement with Muslims that presidents before her, all men, promised but could not deliver. Whether it was Barack Obama swearing to start “a new beginning” with the “Muslim world” in Cairo but delivering more death, or Emmanuel Macron’s pale commitment to integrate France’s embattled Muslim population but dealing them the same familiar blows of scorn and isolation. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1043

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s global-synthesis view with Iftikhar and complements Beydoun’s framing of Macron-era France elsewhere.