Clash-of-civilizations ideology animated the Trump administration’s core policies

Evidence

According to my friend M. Arsalan Suleiman—former Acting US Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) under President Barack Obama—this clash of civilizations ideology animated many of the Trump administration’s most identifiable policies. These policies included the debates over the US-Mexico border wall, immigration reform, refugee resettlement, the Muslim Travel Bans, undermining the Iran nuclear deal, possible Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation, aggressive posturing vis-à-vis China, and efforts to ally with Russia. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 685

Categorization

• XREF: This implements the chapter’s world-order thesis: a single racist civilizational frame drives border wall, Muslim bans, Iran, China, and Russia policy at once — exactly the cross-country connection the single-nation studies miss. — connects to: Bernard Lewis supplied the clash of civilizations thesis to American foreign policy — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 213; The clash-of-civilizations paradigm serves to prolong dominance — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 233; Trump’s agenda threatened Muslims through surveillance, registry, and civic repression — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 56 (+8 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 685

Related

• The clash-of-civilizations thesis spanned both US political parties (similarity 0.91)
• The clash-of-civilizations paradigm serves to prolong dominance (similarity 0.84)
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash (similarity 0.83)
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain (similarity 0.82)
• Right-wing politicians stoked a clash-of-civilizations narrative that globally increased Islamophobia. (similarity 0.82)
• Trump’s campaign statement ‘I think Islam hates us’ and his proposed total shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. constitute vitriolic anti-Muslim rhetoric foregrounded by an unprecedentedly… (similarity 0.81)
• Even realist think tanks opposed the clash of civilizations narrative because al-Qaeda weaponized it. (similarity 0.81)
• The clash of civilizations narrative is a constructed frame, not a given fact (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• Trumpism’s Islamophobic ideology predates Trump’s presidency, rooted in birtherism (similarity 0.80)
• Bernard Lewis supplied the clash of civilizations thesis to American foreign policy (similarity 0.80)
• Obama-era policy reports rejected clash-of-civilizations thinking for liberal imperialism (similarity 0.80)
• Trump marked a new phase where rhetorical Islamophobia aligned openly with policy (similarity 0.79)
• Bush’s war declaration framed the enemy as Islamic and civilizational. (similarity 0.79)
• Trump’s agenda threatened Muslims through surveillance, registry, and civic repression (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #corroborates (0.65) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash #exemplifies (0.60)
• The War on Terror conditioned the American public to want Trump. #expands (0.50)