On August 5, 2012, self-avowed white supremacist Wade Michael Page gunned down six Sikh worshipers at a Gurudwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, before turning the gun on himself. The coverage of the shooting in select media outlets mostly blamed Wade’s obsession with white supremacist hate music and his troubled childhood for the fatal shooting spree. It is asserted that other, neglected factors, also contributed to the Oak Creek massacre: the violent interventions of the US into the Muslim world pre- and post-9/11 and the long history of American Orientalism as an ideological force that rationalizes such interventions and racializes Muslim, Arab, and turbaned bodies as threats to American security; Page’s radicalization in the military, including his intense exposure to orientalist discourse as a PSYOP specialist; and his involvement with the organized white supremacist movement. The paper concludes with a call for scholars to center Orientalism in their inquiry of emerging security cultures and discourses.