Global Islamophobia derives from an American blueprint that authorizes persecution of Muslims

Evidence

Islamophobia equipped nations around the world with the capacity to level their Muslim populations without firing a single bullet. Governments in China and India, for instance, that had long relegated their Muslim communities to inferior status now had an American blueprint for persecuting them with impunity, and even more importantly, a thumbs-up from Uncle Sam to crack down like never before. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 294

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

  • XREF: Connects to Iftikhar’s book the reader is reading alongside — the global-synthesis view of Islamophobia as coordinated rather than national anomaly.
  • QUESTION: Which specific Chinese and Indian crackdowns does Beydoun document in later chapters? Worth chasing.