Im starting to get my sense of smell and taste back

, shouldn't have given up smoking, I haven't missed either of them.
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Different kind
According to Edward Said, '[Islam] belongs to the discourse of Orientalism – a construction fabricated to whip up feelings of hostility and antipathy against a part of the world which happens to be of strategic importance for its oil, its threatening adjacency to Christianity, its formidable history of competition with the West. Yet this is a very different thing from what to Muslims that live within its domain, Islam really is.’
How, and to what extent do you think Islam has belonged to 'the discourse of Orientalism’ in British politics and journalism post-9/11’?