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America’s Long War with Nikhil Pal Singh

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Islami Phobia

The new wars were proclaimed as a defence of freedom itself defined as a secular, liberal order in which christians, jews and moslems stood united. As the wars in arack in afghanistan start to become broadly seen as total disasters, that's when islami phobia really took off. Elits claim the mantle of cosmopolitanism and universalism as the strategic and ideological requisite of global leadership. My question is, how did this, this universal pretence, fit into neo conservative universalism, and then ultimately lead us to today with trumpest unreconstructed raceism and islam phobia?

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