Civil rights groups argue CVE perpetuates Muslim stereotypes rather than preventing extremism

Evidence

In addition to asking citizens to surveil members of their communities, the federal government has also asked state organizations to participate in the program. … CVE has been met with protest by several civil rights advocacy groups (Nguyen 2015). Community members felt this request was unfair because members of other religious communities are not asked to participate in these types of self-policing. The ACLU of Massachusetts, the Muslim Justice League, and former FBI agent Michael Germain have all argued that this program does not weed out extremism but instead simply perpetuates stereotypes of Muslims, subjecting them to racial profiling (American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts n.d.). — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 62

Categorization

• XREF: The ACLU/Germain critique parallels the reader’s existing map of surveillance as racialization, and the fact that non-Muslim communities bear no equivalent burden. — connects to: The CVE program uniquely recruits Muslims as security-state agents.