Whites are framed as individuals while Muslims are framed as an ominous monolith

Evidence

These competing racial constructions, or “racializations,” are built upon the notion that whites are always innocuous and self-directed individuals. Muslims, by contrast, are a faceless mass, all tied to an ominous monolith that is imagined in the form of the terror network of the day or the rival civilization that they all belong to. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 938

Categorization

• DEFINE: Cristallizes the ‘racialization’ mechanism: the asymmetry between white individuality and Muslim monolithicity is the core of the framing.
• DEEPTHINKING: The individuation-vs-monolith binary is a genuinely paradigm-shifting analytic frame for why white terrorists are individualized and non-white ones collectivized. This deserves more than a skim.
• XREF: connects to: White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists