Airport profiling targets all Muslims, not just Arabs or specific nationalities

Evidence

As the AVOT statement makes clear, it is not simply the violent section of the Islamist movement that they wish to “research,” but “Islam and Islamism” as a whole. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that simply being a Muslim makes you worthy of suspicion, according to this logic. Drawing a page from the McCarthyist playbook, Gaffney was one of many who claimed that Obama might be a “secret Muslim.” The implication, of course, is that being a Muslim is sufficient cause for not trusting him. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 540 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Bilal’s darker skin may have incited the security agent to ask if he was Muslim. When he confirmed the officer’s suspicion that he was a Muslim, the TSA agent proceeded to search his personal belongings. Bilal’s American passport should have granted him reentry into America with ease, yet because he was a Muslim, the borders tightened when he attempted to come back in. His status as an American citizen did not protect him from being profiled because his Muslim identity negates his status as an American. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 222 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The interviews also revealed that South Asian and Arab men and women, regardless of their status as Americans, were surveilled by both the state and their fellow citizens because of their religious identity. South Asian and Arab Muslim Americans had similar experiences to one another because of the way their religious identity was interpreted. Their ethnicity as South Asian or Arab intersected with their Muslim identity and gender in salient ways that impacted social interactions in their everyday lives because it had made them a target for surveillance. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslim men are placed on TSA lists based on name similarity to suspected terrorists. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 210; Airport profiling of Muslims is systemic and state-institutionalized rather than random — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 285; Airport surveillance publicly signals to the population that Muslims are potential terrorists — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 338 (+6 more)

Related

• Airport profiling of Muslims is systemic and state-institutionalized rather than random (similarity 0.90)
• Airports allocate the privilege of unexamined travel along racialized lines (similarity 0.88)
• Airport profiling targets Muslims as a religious class, not any specific nationality (similarity 0.88)
• Muslim identity overrides American citizenship in airport profiling (similarity 0.87)
• State profiling legitimizes fellow passengers to report Muslims as suspicious (similarity 0.87)
• Airport profiling collapses religious identity and racial appearance into a single target (similarity 0.85)
• Listed Muslim travelers are routinely pulled for pat-downs at airport checkpoints (similarity 0.85)
• Airport surveillance publicly signals to the population that Muslims are potential terrorists (similarity 0.84)
• Named Muslim men on the Selectee List endure stacked layers of airport checks (similarity 0.84)
• Muslim men are placed on TSA lists based on name similarity to suspected terrorists. (similarity 0.83)
• Identity-based profiling violates the Fourth Amendment and fails to prevent attacks (similarity 0.83)
• TSA surveillance targets citizens regardless of religiosity, profession, or travel habits (similarity 0.83)
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim identity overrides American citizenship status at the border. (similarity 0.83)
• Religious identity replaced ethnicity as the marker making Muslim Americans seen as anti-American (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim suspicion targets all Muslims, not just violent extremists #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 540
• Muslim identity overrides American citizenship in airport profiling #corroborates (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 222
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship #corroborates (0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104