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MIDDLE EAST EYE
Misbah Haqani
20 June 2023

The state's 'national security' discourse is being used as a weapon in service of Islamophobia

Members of the United Hindu Front hold a protest to demand the deportation of Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims in New Delhi in August 2018 (AFP)

Over the past three decades, the borders of the concept and practice of security have expanded dramatically - and vaguely, inasmuch as anything and everything now embodies the potential to be constructed as a security threat.