Antiterror measures place Muslims outside law as killable subjects

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. … Here we reach the dark heart of modern Islamophobia as a fully implemented system of discrimination in that it is the modern-day Muslim subject, not only in the battleground countries of the war on terror but also in the West, who becomes the subject placed outside the law and thus may be imprisoned or killed with impunity—the homo sacer in Giorgio Agamben’s well-known phrase. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 320

Categorization

• XREF: Agamben’s homo sacer and Schmitt’s state of exception join the tools for reading Hamid and Naqvi’s protagonists as subjects suspended between rights and security. This gives a juridical vocabulary for the paranoid citizenry that surveils Changez and the character in Home Boy. — connects to: Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282; Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enforcement targeted Muslims despite neutral wording. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 259; Anti-terror safety demands are displaced onto Muslims disproportionately — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 432 (+12 more)
• DEFINE: Crisply defines state of exception and homo sacer as the juridical machinery behind modern Islamophobia.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282; Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enforcement targeted Muslims despite neutral wording. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 259; Anti-terror safety demands are displaced onto Muslims disproportionately — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 432 (+12 more)