Clash rhetoric shifted domestic targeting to suppress pro-Palestinian activism

Evidence

Neoconservatives took the clash of civilizations theory to another level by equating Islam with Fascism and Communism. They shifted the focus from the international to the domestic, with the intent to persuade law enforcement to target Muslims and Arabs in the United States as a means of quashing pro-Palestinian activism. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 704

Categorization

• QUESTION: This names an explicit strategic motive — the theory was used to justify law enforcement targeting to suppress pro-Palestinian activism. Worth chasing the sourcing and how directly the intent is documented.
• XREF: connects to: Terrorism labeling expands opportunistically to discredit domestic protest movements; Pro-Israel groups seeded the Islamophobia network to suppress campus Palestine activism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 677