The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims

Evidence

The American War on Terror cemented this dictate, and during the two decades after the 9/11 terror attacks, it strategically expanded and exported connected crusades into nations across the globe. This dictate, which held Muslim identity as presumptive of terror suspicion, was the principal product of this global project, which countries across the globe adopted—and then adapted—to fit their domestic political ambitions. Since its inception, the War on Terror has gradually metastasized into a network of crusades against Muslims in nations in Europe and Asia, Africa and the Americas. In a short time, it has birthed new campaigns of persecution in some nations, while emboldening existing cultural and political wars in other countries. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 67

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly exemplifies Kumar’s ‘Islamophobia is empire’ thesis that the reader is tracking across this book.
• SEED: Angle: how a US policing template was translated into local anti-Muslim policy in distinct national contexts.

Related

• The War on Terror exported Muslim-suspicion doctrine that nations adapted locally (similarity 0.90)
• The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar (similarity 0.87)
• The War on Terror made the words Muslim and terrorism virtually synonymous (similarity 0.87)
• The war on terror authorized a unilateral US break from global rules and institutions (similarity 0.87)
• The War on Terror functions as an imperial project spreading Islamophobia globally (similarity 0.87)
• War on Terror crusading extends the original medieval Crusades in European framing. (similarity 0.87)
• Islamophobia functions as a transnational tool advancing American imperial aims (similarity 0.86)
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain (similarity 0.86)
• American War on Terror framings directly empowered Indian designations of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists (similarity 0.85)
• Terrorism is not uniquely Islamic but often stems from state negligence and empire. (similarity 0.85)
• A networked empire of distinct anti-Muslim crusades has replaced a single national campaign. (similarity 0.85)
• The War on Terror unites disparate national crusades against a single depersonalized Arab object (similarity 0.85)
• War on Terror policies inspired the Christchurch terrorist’s attacks (similarity 0.85)
• The War on Terror racializes all Muslims as a boundless enemy to justify war (similarity 0.85)
• The War on Terror globally embedded a racialized terrorist stereotype of Muslims (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror has metastasized into a global crusade adopted by many governments. #corroborates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 147
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 285
• Islamophobia is an empire advanced by a network of governments with distinct crusades #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 69
• The global War on Terror legitimized China’s Han supremacist crackdown on Uyghurs #exemplifies (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 535
• The War on Terror extended decades of American imperial aggression against Muslims. #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 269
• War on Terror Islamophobia empowered populist demagogues to seize power against Muslims #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 292
• The War on Terror mutated differently in each host country #qualifies (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 161
• Four interconnected groups jointly project the Muslim-enemy image #expands (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 537
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #complicates (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 33