America’s War on Terror exported Islamophobic framing that empowered India’s BJP

Evidence

In fact, the War on Terror, a child of white supremacy and its never-ending imperial ambitions, flipped the racial script. Although the American crusade claimed the lives of millions of innocents, and continues to claim bodies as you read these words, it propagated the cardinal lie that terrorism is an exclusively Muslim phenomenon. Muslims were not merely raced or stereotyped as terrorists, but the War on Terror made the two words “Muslim” and “terrorism” virtually synonymous. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 935 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China; The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75; American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations. (+14 more)

Related

• American War on Terror framings directly empowered Indian designations of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists (similarity 0.90)
• American War on Terror rhetoric licensed India’s Hindu supremacist campaign against Muslims (similarity 0.87)
• The global War on Terror opened the entryway for Hindutva. (similarity 0.85)
• American War on Terror doctrine legitimated India’s recasting of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China (similarity 0.84)
• War on Terror rhetoric remade Indian Muslims into outsiders branded as Pakistanis or jihadis (similarity 0.84)
• America’s War on Terror helped legitimize Modi’s rise. (similarity 0.83)
• Kashmiri Muslim identity is equated with terrorism in India (similarity 0.82)
• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• The global War on Terror opened a path for Modi’s Hindu supremacist campaign (similarity 0.82)
• The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar (similarity 0.82)
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain (similarity 0.81)
• American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations. (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror made the words Muslim and terrorism virtually synonymous (similarity 0.80)
• Indian Muslims frame Islamophobia as a newly contracted national disease (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• American War on Terror framings directly empowered Indian designations of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists #expands (0.80)
• War on Terror Islamophobia empowered populist demagogues to seize power against Muslims #expands (0.75)
• The War on Terror made the words Muslim and terrorism virtually synonymous #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 935
• Modi’s India serves as a laboratory for virulent Islamophobia #exemplifies (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 485
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain #expands (0.70)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #expands (0.70)
• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims #expands (0.70)
• Reifying Islam as a unified agent underwrote conspiracy theories of a pan-Indian jihad #expands (0.65)
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims #expands (0.60)
• The War on Terror weaponizes an invented Orientalist past to victimize Muslims today #expands (0.60)
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash #expands (0.55)
• Indian Islamophobia rests on casting Muslims as foreign invaders rather than citizens #expands (0.55)
• Indian Muslims frame Islamophobia as a newly contracted national disease #exemplifies (0.50)