The global War on Terror opened the entryway for Hindutva.
Evidence
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. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 398
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Directly evidences the ‘states learning Islamophobic techniques from one another’ question — War on Terror created a global template India adopted.
- SEED: An essay tracing how post-9/11 bigotry normalization migrated from American/Western media into Indian electoral politics.
Related
- The global War on Terror opened a path for Modi’s Hindu supremacist campaign (similarity 0.92)
- American War on Terror rhetoric licensed India’s Hindu supremacist campaign against Muslims (similarity 0.90)
- America’s War on Terror exported Islamophobic framing that empowered India’s BJP (similarity 0.87)
- America’s War on Terror helped legitimize Modi’s rise. (similarity 0.87)
- War on Terror rhetoric remade Indian Muslims into outsiders branded as Pakistanis or jihadis (similarity 0.84)
- American War on Terror doctrine legitimated India’s recasting of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists (similarity 0.83)
- The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims (similarity 0.83)
- The War on Terror exported Muslim-suspicion doctrine that nations adapted locally (similarity 0.82)
- Modi’s 2014 rise to power sparked India’s Islamophobia wave (similarity 0.81)
- The War on Terror functions as an imperial project spreading Islamophobia globally (similarity 0.80)
- The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar (similarity 0.80)
- Modi’s India serves as a laboratory for virulent Islamophobia (similarity 0.80)
- Hindutva Islamophobia regained mainstream appeal in just a few years (similarity 0.80)
- The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain (similarity 0.79)
- American War on Terror framings directly empowered Indian designations of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- America’s War on Terror exported Islamophobic framing that empowered India’s BJP
#corroborates(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 411 - The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain
#expands(0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 285 - The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims
#expands(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 67