Anti-black racism and Islamophobia fuse to intensify policing of black Muslims.

Evidence

Scholars and activists like Auston, who are rising to the fore of pressing Muslim American discourses today, consistently remind us that anti-black racism and Islamophobia are hardly operating on separate tracks. They are intimately fused, which intensifies the policing and punishment of black Muslim communities during the war on terror and the war on drugs, a similarly amorphous and unconventional campaign that, like the Islamophobic baseline linking Muslim identity to terrorism, conflates blackness with criminality. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 453

Categorization

• XREF: The war-on-drugs/war-on-terror parallel is exactly the structural machinery Rana traces on the state side; reader can set these side by side. — connects to: Modern surveillance is structured by anti-Blackness — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2569; The US government manufactured Islamophobia as a disciplinary technique against black political activism; Muslim faith practice that is benign for others marks young black men as threats. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 359 (+20 more)
• SEED: Angle: the structural symmetry between ‘blackness equals criminality’ and ‘Muslim equals terrorist’ as twin conflations justifying twin wars.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 453

Broader Connections

• Black American Muslims suffer compounded vulnerability from converging anti-Black racism and Islamophobia #corroborates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460
• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #complicates (0.40)
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #complicates (0.35)
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #complicates (0.30)