# Anti-Muslim racism is a global system used to normalise mass killing

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/anti-muslim-racism-is-a-global-system-used-to-normalise-mass-killing/
- Published: 2026-11-13T11:10:32+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T11:22:58+00:00
- Original publisher: Middle East Eye (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-anti-muslim-racism-makes-mass-death-permissible
- Topics: World

## Key points

- The article frames anti-Muslim racism as a global system.
- It says terrorism discourse can legitimise violence and exclusion.
- It connects Palestine to wider patterns affecting Muslim populations.

## Summary

The article argues that anti-Muslim racism operates as a global system, rather than only as individual prejudice, by casting Muslims and people associated with Muslim identity as security threats. It says this framing helps make violence, exclusion and the exposure of civilian populations to premature death seem politically acceptable.

The author links the argument to destruction in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, as well as earlier examples involving US drone strikes in Yemen, refugees in the Mediterranean and displaced Syrians in camps. The article describes terrorism discourse as a set of policies, laws and representations that can legitimise surveillance and violence, and says the occupation of Palestine has helped consolidate this wider system. The supplied text ends mid-sentence, so its full discussion is not available.

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