Writing counters word-based violence that hurts Muslims as much as weapons do

Evidence

Pens are the mightiest swords. And in these new crusades, where the onslaught against Muslims is inflicted as much through the fury of words as the firing of guns, a weapon that must be lifted and wielded until the War on Terror meets the same fate as that Christopher Columbus statue, standing headless, in Boston. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1168

Categorization

• SEED: Thesis-shaped line for an essay on writing as a counter-weapon to discursive violence in the War on Terror.