Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing

Evidence

“We need to wake up and say, ‘You know what? Enough is enough,’” stated Hibaaq Osman, whose family owns a small café in a Somali shopping mall in Minneapolis. “We are citizens, we are taxpayers, we own businesses, we need people to understand that we also are part of this country just the way anybody else is.” While Muslims are asleep, DHS and local law enforcement are pushing CVE policing, planting informants, and paying collaborators to be part of this new war-on-terror witch hunt—a persecution against which citizenship, sadly, offers little protection. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 412

Categorization

• QUESTION: Beydoun claims citizenship doesn’t shield Muslims—worth probing the data on how CVE targets citizens vs non-citizens.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 412
• XREF: connects to: American citizenship offers no protection from targeted drone assassination — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 848; Obama’s mosque speech contradicted its own stated aims through CVE promotion. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 325; Obama’s mosque visit aimed to enlist Muslims as CVE policing informants. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 322 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveilled Muslim citizens feel citizenship offers no protection from detention #corroborates (0.90) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 571
• Muslim Americans hold nominal but reduced substantive citizenship #corroborates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1344
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship #corroborates (0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104
• Class privilege does not shield Muslim travelers from airport surveillance #corroborates (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 260
• Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance #corroborates (0.70)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship #qualifies (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658
• The surveillance gaze denies Muslim Americans the psychological privileges of citizenship #expands (0.60)
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim Americans the individuality citizenship requires. #expands (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 546
• Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship. #expands (0.50)
• Islamophobic discourse denies Muslims the status of ordinary citizens #expands (0.50)