Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship.

Evidence

“[Muslim Americans] may now enjoy nominal citizenship status, but their members are, in fact, afforded less in the way of substantive citizenship than others in society” (30). — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1344 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

This act of denying Muslims their American identity is a racializing act and is accomplished through hypersurveillance. The belief that to be American is to be white is resurfacing as Muslims are made to feel they are incapable of being loyal to America because their bodies are equated with terror and their values are somehow antithetical to Western or American ones. In many ways, it feels as if America is revisiting its past: the early twentieth century, when South Asian men desperately fought for naturalization were denied it because their religious identity situated them as incapable of sharing Western values. The act of racialized surveillance is also an act that strips one of citizenship. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Islamophobic discourse denies Muslims the status of ordinary citizens; Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 412; Immigration agents presumed Middle Easterners Muslim and therefore unassimilable — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 179 (+14 more)

Related

• Islamophobic discourse denies Muslims the status of ordinary citizens (similarity 0.91)
• Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans. (similarity 0.90)
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim Americans the individuality citizenship requires. (similarity 0.89)
• Muslim Americans hold nominal but reduced substantive citizenship (similarity 0.87)
• Even Muslim civil rights organizations are surveilled and discredited by the state (similarity 0.86)
• Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing (similarity 0.86)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship (similarity 0.86)
• Racialization denies Muslim Americans the individuality that American citizenship requires (similarity 0.84)
• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans (similarity 0.83)
• Surveilled Muslim citizens feel citizenship offers no protection from detention (similarity 0.83)
• Citizenship status does not protect Muslim Americans from state surveillance. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim Americans are excluded from full citizenship through surveillance and monitoring (similarity 0.81)
• Class privilege and government service did not shield Muslims from surveillance. (similarity 0.81)
• The surveillance gaze denies Muslim Americans the psychological privileges of citizenship (similarity 0.81)
• No US religious community endures such simultaneous embrace and surveillance (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The surveillance gaze denies Muslim Americans the psychological privileges of citizenship #corroborates (0.85)
• Muslim Americans hold nominal but reduced substantive citizenship #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1344
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship #contradicts (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658
• Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans. #expands (0.60)
• Islamophobia is refusing Muslims a role in building national identity #expands (0.55)
• Muslim identity overrides American citizenship status at the border. #qualifies (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 306