Anti-Muslim racism is systemic, not fringe, and requires dismantling the national security state

Evidence

Combating anti-Muslim racism and various interconnected racisms more generally will require a great deal more than uniting in opposition to its most egregious manifestations. Moreover, it is necessary to recognize that anti-Muslim racism is systemic and not the product of a few “fringe” elements. From this flows the task of dismantling the institutional and structural foundations upon which anti-Muslim racism is built and which provide sustenance to its liberal, conservative, and reactionary variants. In other words, it is going to require a radical approach, one that gets at the very root of the problem, and that means, at a minimum, putting an end to the war on terror, dismantling the national security state, and undoing the class power that underpins that apparatus. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 766

Categorization

• SEED: A short primer: why ‘countering Islamophobia’ campaigns that target fringe hate are structurally inadequate.
• DEEPTHINKING: Condenses the book’s whole analytical program into one paragraph: racism as anchored in institutional/class power, not attitudes.
• XREF: connects to: The national security state has racialized Muslims into a category vulnerable to premature death. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 52; Ending anti-Muslim racism requires dismantling the national security state and class power. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 766; Ending Islamophobia requires dismantling the war-on-terror security state (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Ending Islamophobia requires dismantling the war-on-terror security state #corroborates (0.98)
• Anti-Muslim oppression constitutes structural racism, not mere religious intolerance #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 91
• Anti-Muslim racism is structurally rooted in empire, not individual prejudice #corroborates (0.93) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 78
• State surveillance and propaganda work in concert to produce systemic anti-Muslim racism #expands (0.92)
• Anti-Muslim racism operates as a logic of white supremacy, not mere prejudice #expands (0.90) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1054
• Structural Islamophobia institutionalizes the presumption that Muslim identity threatens national security #corroborates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1258
• Anti-Muslim racism is a normal tool of empire, not crisis response #corroborates (0.88)
• Counterterrorism programs targeting only Muslims serve anti-Muslim racism more than national security #corroborates (0.85)
• National security law became a pretext to silence dissident religious Muslims #corroborates (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 910
• The state authorizes citizens to racially profile Muslims under national security #expands (0.82) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 424
• Elite power over anti-Muslim racism is real but not absolute or predetermined #qualifies (0.80)
• The state suppresses Muslim dissent regardless of actual security threat level #complicates (0.75) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 415
• Anti-Muslim racialization is unstable, contested, and co-produced with anti-racism #complicates (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 193
• Anti-Muslim racism is not continuous from the Inquisition to Abu Ghraib #complicates (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 92