American War on Terror propaganda accelerated Myanmar’s preexisting ethnic cleansing into genocide

Evidence

Fatima, whose faith was marked as “uncivilized” and “irreducibly violent” by an American War on Terror that met an existing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and, through its weaponry of propaganda and policy, helped propel it toward genocide. … Both are myths cultivated and curated by Western tropes and a War on Terror that reared another ugly face in Myanmar. Buddhism was manipulated and made into a death cult by Suu Kyi and her military generals, who unleashed a genocidal Islamophobia on the Rohingya people, a people native to Rakhine State. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 671

Categorization

• QUESTION: The mechanism claim — that American anti-Muslim discourse productively fed the Myanmar genocide — is the most controversially causal assertion here. Exactly how did US propaganda transmit into Burmese Buddhist nationalism, versus merely co-occurring? This deserves unpicking.
• XREF: Cross-domain parallel: the global diffusion of Islamophobic tropes echoing how the Frankfurt School traced culture-industry tropes transmitting across borders.