Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China

Evidence

Chapter 4 moves east from the Indian subcontinent to China and Myanmar, sites of horrific ethnic cleansing against two indigenous Muslim populations. I examine the American War on Terror’s facilitation of the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China’s disputed northwest territory, Xinjiang. In 2014, that mass persecution devolved into a full-scale elimination program encompassing mass detention, torture, and the criminalization of Islam through law and violence. I then delve into the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, which like its Chinese counterpart is a campaign steered by the government to remove a people from land the state desperately covets. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

However, the internment of Uyghur Muslims is only the tip of the ominous state architecture of ethnic cleansing. China’s designs to crush Uyghur self-determination have mutated into a crusade to decimate an entire people. Chinese Islamophobia, in short, is a state-sponsored campaign that seeks to uproot the Islam indigenous to East Turkistan, and in its place, seed Han customs and the Communist mandate of total control. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 610 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Reifying Islam as a unified agent underwrote conspiracy theories of a pan-Indian jihad; Anti-Muslim fear is being weaponized electorally in Europe and India simultaneously — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 34; The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar (+19 more)

Related

• American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations. (similarity 0.87)
• Islamophobia is an empire advanced by a network of governments with distinct crusades (similarity 0.87)
• American War on Terror framings directly empowered Indian designations of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists (similarity 0.86)
• Chinese Islamophobia is a state campaign to uproot indigenous Islam and implant Han control (similarity 0.86)
• The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims (similarity 0.85)
• The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar (similarity 0.85)
• America’s War on Terror exported Islamophobic framing that empowered India’s BJP (similarity 0.84)
• States across the power spectrum weaponize Islamophobia for national and imperial projects (similarity 0.84)
• US and China colluded to extend the War on Terror to China (similarity 0.83)
• Chinese Islamophobia seeks to uproot indigenous Islam and replace it with Han customs (similarity 0.81)
• China bulldozes Uyghur mosques to erase the architecture of Islamic life (similarity 0.81)
• Washington reluctantly designated China’s Uyghur separatists as a terrorist group at Beijing’s urging (similarity 0.80)
• China adopted the War on Terror as cover for pre-existing designs on the Uyghurs (similarity 0.80)
• Weak states, subempires, and European far-right parties all weaponize Islamophobia independent of US empire (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia now wages wars across both Western and non-Western states (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations. #expands (0.85)
• The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75
• Chinese Islamophobia is a state campaign to uproot indigenous Islam and implant Han control #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 610
• Modi’s India serves as a laboratory for virulent Islamophobia #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 485
• America’s War on Terror exported Islamophobic framing that empowered India’s BJP #expands (0.65)
• Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias #corroborates (0.60)
• Islamophobia has material and political causes beyond ignorance or xenophobia #expands (0.55) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 706