The global War on Terror opened a path for Modi’s Hindu supremacist campaign

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The War on Terror created a gaping entryway for Modi’s Hindutva vision. By 2014, demonizing Muslims had become a global phenomenon, and as lucidly illustrated in American media and European newsprint, one of the last remaining acceptable forms of bigotry. Modi drew up a strategy to seize power by turning back the clock and restoring the vision of Bharat—the belief that India is the holy land for Hindus—as the center of his campaign to take power. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 398

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• XREF: This is the global-synthesis link the reader wants: the US War on Terror as the enabling condition for India’s own Islamophobic politics.