The War on Terror laid foundations for policies white supremacists later claimed as inspiration

Evidence

After the Christchurch massacres, it became lucidly apparent that xenophobic populism, and the Islamophobia that marches alongside it, is not empty rhetoric or a distant phenomenon. It is an enemy within. … The shock of the massacre comes at a time when Western democracies are being reshaped in line with the image of xenophobic and white supremacist populism. This process has pushed for the imposition of veil and Muslim travel bans, mounting surveillance, en masse bulldozing of Muslim homes, and restrictions on public calls to prayer—all policies that the Christchurch terrorist claimed as inspirations and that the War on Terror facilitated or laid a foundation for. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1038

Categorization

• XREF: Direct corroboration of the causal chain central to Iftikhar’s global-synthesis thesis, worth flagging for the alongside reading.