Anti-terror operations disproportionately net poor Black men incited by paid informants
Evidence
Why does the government’s anti-terror net catch such unconvincing villains: black men near mosques who, in exchange for promises of money, sign on to knuckleheaded schemes that would never exist if it weren’t for the informants being handsomely paid to incite them? — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 588
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: what selection processes route this demographic into informant-led plots — is it targeting of mosques and poor neighborhoods, or something else?
- XREF: connects to: Poverty and desperation make entrapment targets vulnerable to paid informants — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 587; FBI entrapment targets poor, vulnerable Black men near mosques; FBI informants exploit poverty and grief to entrap vulnerable men into fake plots (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- FBI entrapment targets poor, vulnerable Black men near mosques
#corroborates(0.95) - FBI informants exploit poverty and grief to entrap vulnerable men into fake plots
#expands(0.92) - FBI informants actively instigate the terror plots they are paid to foil
#corroborates(0.90) - FBI informants recruit vulnerable poor men into terror plots with money and fake weapons.
#corroborates(0.88) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 569 - Anti-black racism and Islamophobia fuse to intensify policing of black Muslims.
#expands(0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 453 - War on Terror oppression of Muslims parallels War on Drugs targeting of African Americans
#expands(0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 631 - Wars on terror obscure ongoing institutional racisms against black people globally.
#qualifies(0.72)