Western leaders’ outreach pledges to Muslims produced more harm than reconciliation

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: Links to the reader’s global-synthesis project with Iftikhar: Obama’s Cairo speech and Macron’s integration policy as parallel Western cases of failed Muslim engagement.
• SEED: Angle: a comparative piece on how Western leaders ritualize ‘new beginning’ speeches toward Muslims while policies deliver the opposite.