India enacted its Muslim Ban three months after Modi’s Texas rally

Evidence

On December 11, 2019—less than three months after Modi stumped with Trump in Texas—India enacted its very own “Muslim Ban.” The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which many—including myself—compared to the executive order that President Trump signed and the Supreme Court later upheld, was more draconian and more destructive than its American counterpart. Its enactment hammered another nail in the coffin of the “promise” of Indian secularism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 437

Categorization

• XREF: Direct cross-national evidence for the reader’s global-synthesis thread: states imitating one another’s Islamophobic techniques, alongside Iftikhar.
• QUESTION: How much did the Texas rally catalyze the CAA’s December timing?