The War on Terror label accelerated Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya Muslims.

Evidence

The War on Terror, and that inescapable label with which it branded Muslims everywhere, opened the floodgates for genocide in Myanmar. A genocide driven by an expeditious Islamophobia that, before the 9/11 terror attacks and the crusade that followed, declassified Rohingya Muslims as citizens and sought to plunge them into the ocean. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 661

The War on Terror, and that inescapable label with which it branded Muslims everywhere, opened the floodgates for genocide in Myanmar. A genocide driven by an expeditious Islamophobia that, before the 9/11 terror attacks and the crusade that followed, declassified Rohingya Muslims as citizens and sought to plunge them into the ocean. … “If you call somebody a terrorist, you can do anything imaginable or unimaginable to them,” shared Abed Ayoub, a Washington, DC–based immigration lawyer who has helped several Rohingya refugees resettle in the United States. “Especially in places like Myanmar, where the value of Muslim life is next to nothing.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 661

Categorization

• SEED: Strong angle: ‘terrorist’ branding as a legal and moral precondition for ethnic cleansing — the label is what converts stripping citizenship into something state personnel will carry out.
• XREF: Connects to Iftikhar’s Islamicphobia taxonomy: the ‘terrorist’ label as the master key unlocking state violence against Muslims worldwide. — connects to: Buddhist monks led an anti-Muslim boycott and incitement campaign in Myanmar — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 136; The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar; Myanmar’s armed forces violently cracked down on Rohingya in Rakhine State (+3 more)
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 661

Broader Connections

• Western War on Terror tropes shaped the Buddhist-nationalist genocide of Rohingya. #corroborates (0.85)
• The terrorist label licenses unlimited violence against Muslims in Myanmar. #expands (0.70)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #expands (0.65)