The American War on Terror supplied other states a template for persecuting Muslims.

Evidence

Beyond genuine national security threats, countries across the world capitalized on the conflation of Islam with terrorism to serve discrete national interests. This American War on Terror furnished nations with license, and more importantly, a policing template and language to profile and persecute their Muslim minority populations. American Islamophobia, buoyed by swift state action including the War in Afghanistan and the USA PATRIOT Act, manifested in a surge of vigilante violence against Muslims and “Muslim-looking” groups and had global impact. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 68

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Kumar Iftikhar’s global-synthesis view this reader is reading alongside, and echoes the state-learning thesis of the chapter. — connects to: War on Terror tactics used abroad were reimported to police domestic Muslims. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 267; Manufacturing Muslim enemies serves U.S. state formation and empire.
• QUESTION: The specific mechanisms of template-transfer between states — diplomatic pressure, training programs, funding conditionalities — is where the cross-national learning claim gets testable.