/WHILE PRESIDENT, Donald Trump often recounted an apocryphal story about
General John Pershing, who, he claimed, stanched the Moro Rebellion in
the Southern Philippines with the help of bullets coated in pig’s blood.
At campaign rallies, he also justified his aversion to Syrian refugees
by quoting the lyrics of Oscar Brown’s “The Snake,” in which the serpent
bites the woman who cared for it when it was ill. As Anjuli Fatima Raza
Kolb describes in her forceful and timely debut book,/Epidemic Empire:
Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020/, both narratives
symbolically bind Muslims with microbial violence, both as the means to
suppress them and to characterize them, like a virus, as venomous and
inherently prone to attack./
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-disease-poetics-of-empire-a-conversation-with-anjuli-fatima-raza-kolb/
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