American War on Terror framings directly empowered Indian designations of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists

Evidence

Chapter 4 moves east from the Indian subcontinent to China and Myanmar, sites of horrific ethnic cleansing against two indigenous Muslim populations. I examine the American War on Terror’s facilitation of the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China’s disputed northwest territory, Xinjiang. In 2014, that mass persecution devolved into a full-scale elimination program encompassing mass detention, torture, and the criminalization of Islam through law and violence. I then delve into the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, which like its Chinese counterpart is a campaign steered by the government to remove a people from land the state desperately covets. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

New heroes and old villains, traced in the racial order that white supremacy and Islamophobia made. The American War on Terror, spearheaded by an administration bent on exacting revenge on a single terror network, has devolved into something unrecognizable from its original form. It has spawned a monster that has mutated wherever it has landed, that has been shaped and then reshaped by the histories and marching orders of its local host. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 161 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: America’s War on Terror exported Islamophobic framing that empowered India’s BJP; Kashmiri Muslim identity is equated with terrorism in India; The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (+9 more)

Related

• America’s War on Terror exported Islamophobic framing that empowered India’s BJP (similarity 0.90)
• The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims (similarity 0.89)
• Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China (similarity 0.86)
• American War on Terror doctrine legitimated India’s recasting of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists (similarity 0.85)
• US and China colluded to extend the War on Terror to China (similarity 0.85)
• The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar (similarity 0.85)
• Washington reluctantly designated China’s Uyghur separatists as a terrorist group at Beijing’s urging (similarity 0.83)
• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• The American War on Terror escalated into mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad (similarity 0.82)
• Washington’s War on Terror frames are copied by India, China, France, and Myanmar. (similarity 0.82)
• American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations. (similarity 0.82)
• China’s Xinjiang camps escalated from targeting religious leaders to erasing Uyghur identity (similarity 0.81)
• War on Terror rhetoric remade Indian Muslims into outsiders branded as Pakistanis or jihadis (similarity 0.80)
• China bulldozes Uyghur mosques to erase the architecture of Islamic life (similarity 0.80)
• Kashmiri Muslim identity is equated with terrorism in India (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75
• Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China #expands (0.70)
• The War on Terror mutated differently in each host country #exemplifies (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 161
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.65)
• Kashmiri Muslim identity is equated with terrorism in India #exemplifies (0.60)
• The War on Terror made the words Muslim and terrorism virtually synonymous #corroborates (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 935
• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims #expands (0.55)
• US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad. #expands (0.50)
• Clash of civilizations framing located terrorism’s cause within Islam itself #corroborates (0.50) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 266
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims #corroborates (0.50)
• American society explains rare Muslim terror through religion itself #corroborates (0.50)