Class privilege and government service did not shield Muslims from surveillance.

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Assimilation into British business culture did not protect a Muslim from anti-Muslim murder. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 472; Class privilege does not shield Muslim travelers from airport surveillance — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 260; Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance (+2 more)

Related

• Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing (similarity 0.90)
• Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• Class privilege fails to shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance. (similarity 0.84)
• Class privilege does not shield Muslim travelers from airport surveillance (similarity 0.82)
• Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship. (similarity 0.81)
• Citizenship status does not protect Muslim Americans from state surveillance. (similarity 0.81)
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim Americans the individuality citizenship requires. (similarity 0.79)
• Poverty makes Muslim Americans more vulnerable to state surveillance and backlash (similarity 0.78)
• Assimilation into British business culture did not protect a Muslim from anti-Muslim murder. (similarity 0.78)
• Snowden leaks proved surveillance targets religious identity regardless of class or government service (similarity 0.78)
• Socioeconomic status does not protect Muslims from racialization during war (similarity 0.78)
• Economic privilege fails to secure full citizenship privileges for racialized Muslims (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance #corroborates (0.95)
• Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing #expands (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 412
• Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship. #expands (0.60)