American War on Terror doctrine legitimated India’s recasting of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists

Evidence

Islamophobia is the familiar scapegoat legitimized by the War on Terror, readapted to suit the local interests of dictators and demagogues. In fact, American researchers and hawks within the Bush administration singled out Kashmir, during the earliest stages of the War on Terror, as a site of “cross-border terrorism.” That is what the War on Terror gifted to Indian imperial designs. Namely, that whenever Muslims stand in the way of ambitions of hegemony and Hindu supremacy, they can be remade, with full prejudice and without due process, into terrorists. Doctored ideas legitimized by Washington, DC, enable the distorted images that India commissions and then circulates, images of “terrorists” stripped of any power and humanity, striving to stay alive on their own land. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 519

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the reader’s guiding question about states learning Islamophobic techniques from one another — the US gifted framing language to India. Connects to Iftikhar’s global-synthesis view.
• QUESTION: Which specific Bush-administration researchers and documents singled out Kashmir as ‘cross-border terrorism’? Worth chasing the documentary trail.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘the gift of the War on Terror’ — how US counterterrorism doctrine becomes imperial cover for allied states’ domestic oppression of Muslims.