Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans.

Evidence

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

“[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)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Poverty makes Muslim Americans more vulnerable to state surveillance and backlash — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 389; Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104; The state authorizes citizens to racially profile Muslims under national security — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 424 (+10 more)

Related

• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship (similarity 0.94)
• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans (similarity 0.93)
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim Americans the individuality citizenship requires. (similarity 0.91)
• Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship. (similarity 0.90)
• Mass surveillance based on racial stereotypes weakens democracy without preventing terrorism. (similarity 0.89)
• Even Muslim civil rights organizations are surveilled and discredited by the state (similarity 0.89)
• Citizenship status does not protect Muslim Americans from state surveillance. (similarity 0.88)
• Muslim Americans hold nominal but reduced substantive citizenship (similarity 0.88)
• Surveilled Muslim citizens feel citizenship offers no protection from detention (similarity 0.88)
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship (similarity 0.88)
• Muslim Americans are excluded from full citizenship through surveillance and monitoring (similarity 0.88)
• Racialization denies Muslim Americans the individuality that American citizenship requires (similarity 0.88)
• The state authorizes citizens to racially profile Muslims under national security (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. (similarity 0.85)
• FBI surveillance drives Muslim congregations to self-police and Americanize (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship #corroborates (0.90) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658
• Muslim Americans hold nominal but reduced substantive citizenship #corroborates (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1344
• Fear of state detention and deportation corrodes Muslim Americans’ sense of citizenship #expands (0.70)
• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans #expands (0.65)
• The surveillance gaze denies Muslim Americans the psychological privileges of citizenship #expands (0.60)
• Muslim citizenship in America is negated by religious identity after crises #exemplifies (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 340