American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations.

Evidence

An historical exploration of British and American literature between 1690 and 1947 demonstrates the roots and qualities of Islamophobia that Britons and Americans have shared. Meanwhile significant differences between the perspectives found in the two countries demonstrate how these were fashioned by differing concerns about their own societies. In order to emphasize this difference, we choose to compare American views of Muslims with those found among Britons who had lived in India. In the latter context, predominantly white Christian Britons found themselves a minority in a land once ruled by successive Muslim rulers who left impressive vestiges of their once mighty empires. As a ruling elite, Britons had to adapt their Islamophobic inheritance to the exigencies of governing tens of millions of Muslims. In the United States, engagements with Muslims appeared to be a matter of international affairs alone, “Mohammedans” representing an “other” far more distant than the Jews, Catholics, and other religious minorities who lived among the Protestant majority. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 18 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

However, the internment of Uyghur Muslims is only the tip of the ominous state architecture of ethnic cleansing. China’s designs to crush Uyghur self-determination have mutated into a crusade to decimate an entire people. Chinese Islamophobia, in short, is a state-sponsored campaign that seeks to uproot the Islam indigenous to East Turkistan, and in its place, seed Han customs and the Communist mandate of total control. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 610 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Americans derived much of their Islamophobia from British colonial sources. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 40; Anti-Islamic fear imagined Muslims colonizing America into apostasy from afar. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 81; The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar (+10 more)

Related

• Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China (similarity 0.87)
• Chinese Islamophobia is a state campaign to uproot indigenous Islam and implant Han control (similarity 0.87)
• Islamophobia is an empire advanced by a network of governments with distinct crusades (similarity 0.86)
• Americans derived much of their Islamophobia from British colonial sources. (similarity 0.86)
• Asian and American Islamophobia diverged according to each society’s domestic situation (similarity 0.86)
• China and India adopted an American blueprint against their Muslims (similarity 0.85)
• Kazi frames Asian Islamophobia only through American policy, not on its own terms (similarity 0.85)
• Both Americans and Britons held Islam a perennial menace by its proselytizing and violence (similarity 0.85)
• American Islamophobia borrowed British stereotypes because Americans had little contact with Muslims (similarity 0.84)
• Global Islamophobia derives from an American blueprint that authorizes persecution of Muslims (similarity 0.84)
• Britons in India refashioned inherited Islamophobia to serve colonial governance needs (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia is an ideology tied to practices sustaining and reproducing the American empire, which was established through the demonization of Arabs and later Muslims. (similarity 0.83)
• Chinese Islamophobia seeks to uproot indigenous Islam and replace it with Han customs (similarity 0.83)
• The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia took different shapes in Britain and America because each faced different Muslim relations (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• America’s War on Terror exported Islamophobic framing that empowered India’s BJP #corroborates (0.85)
• Asian and American Islamophobia diverged according to each society’s domestic situation #qualifies (0.70) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 18
• Chinese Islamophobia is a state campaign to uproot indigenous Islam and implant Han control #qualifies (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 610
• Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias #complicates (0.60)
• American Orientalism is the living root system that drives Islamophobia. #expands (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 168
• State-sponsored Islamophobia enforces the presumption linking Muslims to terrorism. #expands (0.50)