Western imperialism requires extraction of resources in the Middle East and operates through the otherization of Muslims – reinforces Islamophobic racism and structural dehumanization

The right to self-determination of Muslims to define Islam, the questions of who can speak for Islam connect to this economic agenda of globalization and monopoly capitalism. Defining Islam defines the ontological reality of human beings who are Muslim, the nature of political organization, and the questions of the role and definition of religions. Media creations of Islam and the work of the West in religion-building situate themselves in the discourses of securitization, the control and regulation of fossil fuels, particularly oil, and impede the future of the global work to fight climate change and create a new environmentalism. Dehumanization is at the heart of racism and capitalism (Quijano, 2000). Racism assumes that some people are less human than others based on their racial or ethnic identity. Capitalism assumes that the treatment of some people as less human than others, and the denial of their human rights, as a result, is an acceptable form of social organization. Grosfuguel (2016) states: The people classified above the line of the human are recognized socially in their humanity as human beings and, thus, enjoy access to rights (human rights, civil rights, women rights and/or labor rights), material resources, and social recognition of their subjectivities, identities, epistemologies, and spiritualities. The people below the line of the human are considered subhuman or non-human; that is, their humanity is questioned and, as such, negated (p. 10) It is also possible to define Islamophobia as a form of racism. Muslims and Muslimness have become racialized categories as a result of the ongoing persecution of Muslims globally. Racialized categories draw the line of the human to exclude Muslims. The majority of EuroUS countries have exploited oil-rich economies and economies rich in natural resources and justified this exploitation with racism (Mignolo & Walsh, 2018) and Islamophobia. Lenin called this “parasitic capitalism” (Lenin, 1916) and predicted its advance in human culture at the beginning of the twentieth century.