"On the one hand, the figure of the terrorist is detached from particular bodies, as a shadowy figure, 'an unspecificable may-come-to-pass' (Massumi 1993:11). But it is this could-be-ness, this detachment, which also allows the restriction on the mobility of those bodies that are read as associated with terrorism: Islam, Arab, Asian, East, and so on" (Ahmed 79).
