Anti-Muslim racism is interwoven with settler colonialism, police violence, and the prison system

Evidence

Tarrant, the terrorist who crossed the Tasman Sea from Australia and carried out New Zealand’s deadliest modern terror attack, was just another “regular white man.” With evil efficiency, he did what the two nations’ forefathers had done to the Maoris, the Torres Strait Islanders, and the Aborigines in earlier eras. He indiscriminately murdered them, wiping them off a land that he believed was his own, not as a matter of fiat or legal status, but as a matter of blood, on account of his whiteness. … First Maoris, and then Muslims. White supremacy began with the killing of indigenous Brown people, en masse, on a land that was their own, and its later chapter closed with two massacres of Brown, Black, and white citizens and immigrants inside their places of worship. Their legal or generational claim to the land, for Tarrant and his burgeoning pack of white supremacist counterparts in Australia and across the world, did not matter—only their race, and more specifically, their nonwhiteness. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 903 (#expands, via linked claim)

Because US hegemonic interests in Muslim-majority countries require the dehumanization and vilification of the native populations, empire building abroad animates anti-Muslim racism at home. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1072 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White supremacy in settler colonies moves from indigenous genocide to anti-Muslim massacre — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 903; US empire-building abroad drives anti-Muslim racism domestically — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 1072; Racialized vigilante murder polices neighborhood boundaries against Black and Muslim bodies alike — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 490

Broader Connections

• White supremacy in settler colonies moves from indigenous genocide to anti-Muslim massacre #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 903
• US empire-building abroad drives anti-Muslim racism domestically #expands (0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1072