Nations capitulated to the US ultimatum by arming against their own Muslims

Evidence

This global crusade had only one boundary, one consequential dividing line. And the world’s nations pivoted and plotted, raced and rushed across that line to evade the aim of America’s ultimatum and the pain that could follow if they did not capitulate to it. Many nations picked up arms alongside the United States and directed them against their own Muslim populations. Every Muslim was now subject to a war that marked them as a prospective enemy on account of faith, and faith alone. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 289

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the reader’s guiding question about the shared logic linking national cases and state emulation.