Islamophobia equipped nations around the world with the capacity to level their Muslim populations without firing a single bullet. Governments in China and India, for instance, that had long relegated their Muslim communities to inferior status now had an American blueprint for persecuting them with impunity, and even more importantly, a thumbs-up from Uncle Sam to crack down like never before.

XREF: Connects to broader literature on how Western ideologies and foreign policy export frameworks that get repurposed by other regimes. Relevant to discussions of American soft power and its unintended global authorization. QUESTION: Worth probing: what specific policies in China and India did this 'blueprint' enable, and how did the American framing get invoked domestically?

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 294