The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims

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

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is a roadmap, but the causal claim — that US War on Terror policy facilitated Uyghur persecution beginning 2014 — is worth chasing in the actual chapter for the mechanism.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75
• XREF: connects to: A 2009 Urumqi riot triggered China’s campaign against Uighur Muslims — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 167; The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar; US and China colluded to extend the War on Terror to China (+19 more)

Broader Connections

• The global War on Terror legitimized China’s Han supremacist crackdown on Uyghurs #corroborates (0.85)
• US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad. #corroborates (0.80)
• China adopted the War on Terror as cover for pre-existing designs on the Uyghurs #expands (0.70)
• American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations. #corroborates (0.70)
• China deploys counterterrorism law to suppress Uyghur identity #exemplifies (0.60)
• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims #expands (0.60)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #expands (0.55)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims #expands (0.50)
• The War on Terror weaponizes an invented Orientalist past to victimize Muslims today #expands (0.50)
• America’s War on Terror exported Islamophobic framing that empowered India’s BJP #exemplifies (0.50)