![Guantánamo Diary: Interrogating the War on Terror (Pt. 2) (by Maryam El-Shall)](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/guantanamo-diary.jpg)
The discourse of terrorism is itself an ideology linked to conceptions of truth and identity, life and death, law and justice. But there is also a terror that exists in silence, a terror that bears no name because the life it destroys is not even recognized as having lived.
By Guest Post
![Guantánamo Diary: Interrogating the War on Terror (Pt. 1) (by Maryam El-Shall)](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/guantanamo-diary.jpg)
. . . We live in an age of terror, but not because we have been terrorized by the Other. Rather, the terrorism we recognize is the consequence of an a priori distinction between lives that matter and lives that don’t. Slahi, confined at Guantanamo since January 2000 without charge, represents the figure of terror.
By Guest Post