Anti-terror initiatives can legitimize state terroristic tactics normally repudiated.

Evidence

One is reminded of Max Weber’s famous observation that control over the use of violence is claimed as the prerogative of the modern nation-state. In circumstances where this right is invoked, as it is in some supposed antiterror initiatives, it is then only a short step to the justification of terroristic tactics, such as torture, that the liberal state ordinarily repudiates. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 320

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core question in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Home Boy about how liberal states justify discriminatory security measures against Muslim subjects — the Weber/Schmitt mechanism is exactly the hinge. — connects to: Anti-terror measures in West Germany extended to suppress legal opposition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2755