War on Terror rhetoric remade Indian Muslims into outsiders branded as Pakistanis or jihadis

Evidence

As the War on Terror breathed new life into the BJP and its archetype at the top of Indian government, the coffin for Indian secularism was being prepared. The portrayal of Muslims “as Pakistanis, or Jihadis or evil conspiracists is very much in vogue,” a student shared, testifying to how the War on Terror conflation of terrorism and Islam took form in India. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 412

Categorization

• QUESTION: The conflation of Muslim with Pakistani/non-Indian is a specific local translation — worth tracing how the global War on Terror vocabulary got adapted to India’s communal history.