The War on Terror kicked open the door for Modi and the BJP, who marched through it with the ideological mandate of Hindu supremacy and the war's aligned tenet that branded Islam as a pariah to be condemned, then cast out. American Islamophobia, packaged and promoted via the global War on Terror, opened the door for demagogues like Modi to seize their moment and capitalize on the vocabulary and violence that drove the new American crusade.

XREF: Connects Islamophobia exported from the US to domestic political outcomes in India — cross-national diffusion of ideology.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 411