The US War on Terror gave other nations a sanctioned template for suppressing Muslims

Evidence

The days of “shock and awe” were behind us, and the War on Terror ushered in a new era of smash and grab. This new model offered other nations a template of propaganda and punishment they could emulate that was endorsed by the world’s principal superpower. A superpower that exported “democracy” with bullets, bombs, and bullying of weaker nations, and in line with its new “with us or against us” directive, threatened the world to align itself against Islam or feel the might of that terror itself. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 287

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s guiding question about states learning Islamophobic techniques from one another; ties to the global-synthesis view shared with Iftikhar. — connects to: US instrumental use of Islamists produced today’s negative Islam frame — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 395; The war on terror authorized a unilateral US break from global rules and institutions; War on Terror tactics used abroad were reimported to police domestic Muslims. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 267