All nations enlisted in the War on Terror adopted identical civilizational rhetoric

Evidence

“Anti-terrorism is a fight between justice and evil, civilization and savagery,” declared Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan, reading from a prepared statement that sounded like it had been written by a US State Department aide or a neoconservative lobbyist on K Street. It was not the product of an American pen, but it did not matter, since all of the nations enlisted to fight the War on Terror spoke the same language. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 607

Categorization

• XREF: A strong piece of evidence for the reader’s guiding question about how states learn Islamophobic techniques from one another and share a common vocabulary.
• SEED: Could fold into a piece on the export and mimicry of Islamophobic statecraft scripts across the US, China, India, and France.