DC: Muslim researcher complains that war on terror was “rooted in Islamophobia” and “exclusively targeted Muslims”

Maha Hilal

Jihad Watch : “The goal is to really underscore how the war on terror is so rooted in Islamophobia and to really lift up the story of the ways that Muslims have been impacted.”

The irony here is that for the most part, the “war on terror” scrupulously avoided even the appearance of “Islamophobia” by dissembling about and deflecting from the motivating ideology that underlay the 9/11 jihad attacks.

The Obama administration’s entire counterterror program, for example, was called Countering Violent Extremism, and never mention Islam or jihad in the context of terrorism at all. Bush, Obama and numerous other American officials repeatedly denied that Islam was anything but peaceful. But now Maha Hilal is here to tell us that the war on terror was “rooted in Islamophobia.” Pull my other leg.

“We hope this visual representation will help people understand the war on terror has almost exclusively targeted Muslims.” We hope there are some sane people somewhere who will remember that 9/11 and the 35,000 jihad attacks worldwide since then almost exclusively targeted non-Muslims and Muslims who were considered to belong to the wrong sect.

“Every single time I read one of the event’s descriptions, I would just be horrified….it was so grim … it was difficult to read about these things that were happening to my people…” For a second I thought she was referring to the 9/11 attacks. “Visual timeline project traces ‘underlying Islamophobia’ in war on terror,” by Aysha Khan, Religion News Service, September 11, 2019 :

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