Manchester is more documentation of how much safer the war on terror (so-called) has made the world. Military forces now patrol major cities, several countries are under bombing siege in wars that have gone on for decades, surveillance extends to our email & social media accounts, screening devices are in airports, schools, public venues, & we’re uneasily joking about the CIA or FBI watching us from out computer screens & TVs.

The war on terror is a war of terror. Islamophobia combined with racism toward Arabs is the propaganda that justifies it.