How Dead Muslims Became Normal
Islamophobia may be history's Holy Grail of imperial ideologies - one that conditioned the world to accept the most depraved treatment of fellow human beings as not just normal, but necessary.
The images are seared into our collective consciousness: Syrian refugees drowning in the Mediterranean. Drone strikes obliterating villages in Pakistan and Yemen. Gaza's children being burned alive. Palestinian doctors being raped to death by Israeli soldiers. The torture photos from Abu Ghraib showing Muslim prisoners stripped naked, stacked in pyramids, leashed like dogs. These are not random tragedies - they are the logical endpoints of a systematic death-dealing project called Islamophobia.
The silence around Islamophobia in anti-imperialist spaces roars like thunder to those who care to listen. How is it that those who pride themselves on unmasking power can remain so blind to one of imperialism's central organizing principles? This is no mere oversight—it is a revelation of how completely the imperial worldview has colonized even the minds of its supposed critics.
The Holy Grail of Imperialism
Let's be clear: Islamophobia isn't just one component of …
