America’s War on Terror helped legitimize Modi’s rise.

Evidence

This was the central tenet of the War on Terror, which the United States had been disseminating across the globe for over two decades through fluid policy and fervent propaganda. Those decades witnessed Modi’s rise from a butcher with blood on his hands from masses of dead bodies in Gujarat to India’s reigning Islamophobe-in-chief. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 451

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s question of how states learn Islamophobic technique from one another — the US as teacher.