Under Modi and the BJP, Islamophobia is far more than an epicenter of global Islamophobia; it is a laboratory for one of its most virulent strands.

XREF: Connects to comparative work on ethnonationalist regimes and how state ideologies develop and export globally. QUESTION: What specific policies or rhetorical strategies constitute the 'laboratory' function, and what other countries import them?

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 485