shows that most have deep Western financial/cultural ties and training), when Islamophobia has risen at a quantifiably faster rate than perhaps any other xenophobic impulse of the difference-phobic Western world order (Bulkin and Nevel, 2014). The current racial state of North Africa and North Africans is symptomatic of the lack of epistemological decolonization, and the extent to which contemporary fault lines remain drawn between an always-changing version of 'civilization'/'the West' and everyone else.