American War on Terror rhetoric licensed India’s Hindu supremacist campaign against Muslims

Evidence

The prominence and pervasiveness of Islamophobia also testifies to the widespread popularity of Modi and the BJP, who converged on a global moment to launch a crusade against India’s Muslims and the country’s secular foundation. The War on Terror kicked open the door for Modi and the BJP, who marched through it with the ideological mandate of Hindu supremacy and the war’s aligned tenet that branded Islam as a pariah to be condemned, then cast out. American Islamophobia, packaged and promoted via the global War on Terror, opened the door for demagogues like Modi to seize their moment and capitalize on the vocabulary and violence that drove the new American crusade. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 411

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to Iftikhar’s global-synthesis view; also echoes the reader’s thesis that states learn Islamophobic techniques from one another — this is the explicit state-to-state transmission mechanism.
• SEED: Angle for an essay: the War on Terror as a franchised ideological product exported to national populists, with Modi as its most successful adopter.