The war on terror authorized a unilateral US break from global rules and institutions

Evidence

Everything was the same. Everything except the labels, the laws, and the casing that concealed the same lies. Said’s master discourse, Orientalism, laid the intellectual foundation for understanding the hate that Washington crafted into the War on Terror, which it then globalized and exported. It was shipped off like a new line of Chevy trucks—manufactured at first by American hands on Detroit assembly lines, but then handed off to others to manufacture more inexpensively for the benefit of the brain trust at home. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 277 (#expands, via linked claim)

But as the War on Terror spun distinct myths in different countries and the world spun along with it, an understanding of Islamophobia untethered from the American experience, its distinct history, and unique configurations of race and racism has become essential. Islamophobia is now more than ever a global phenomenon, and the War on Terror has evolved into an imperial project that advances it across longitudes and latitudes. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 43 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The US War on Terror gave other nations a sanctioned template for suppressing Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 287; The War on Terror fragmented into connected systems of global Muslim subordination — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 73; The American War on Terror legitimized China’s Uyghur crackdown — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1497 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The United States exported War on Terror ideology for other nations to reproduce #expands (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 277
• The War on Terror functions as an imperial project spreading Islamophobia globally #expands (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 43
• The US War on Terror gave other nations a sanctioned template for suppressing Muslims #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 287
• The American War on Terror legitimized China’s Uyghur crackdown #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1497
• The American War on Terror exported a policing template states worldwide used against Muslims #expands (0.85)
• The global War on Terror legitimized China’s Han supremacist crackdown on Uyghurs #expands (0.85)
• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims #expands (0.85)
• The War on Terror fragmented into connected systems of global Muslim subordination #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 73