Community leaders police Muslim behavior to protect reputational standing

Evidence

Local religious leaders urged Muslims not to engage with protestors, to be friendly, to ignore unkind words. Self-policing was intense, as mosque leaders did their best to monitor the behavior of “the shabab ” (young men). City leaders feared that local Muslims would overreact, that Jones had to be muzzled to protect the community from its own worst impulses, and that if someone killed Jones (this possibility was widely discussed), it would do great harm to the reputation of Dearborn, Detroit, and Muslims in the United States. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 677

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Self-policing in response to external threat connects to respectability politics literature and to arguments in the volume’s other chapters.

Related

• Fear of Muslim violence led civic leaders to muzzle a provocateur (similarity 0.87)
• Support of Muslims during crises doubles as repressive behavioral control of them (similarity 0.83)
• Community leaders unknowingly become intelligence sources for the security state (similarity 0.80)
• FBI mosque investigations caused congregations to moderate their own leadership (similarity 0.80)
• State surveillance makes Muslim leaders perform Americanization while policing their own discourse (similarity 0.79)
• Surveillance is reproduced horizontally as Muslims police one another too (similarity 0.79)
• Surveillance leads Muslims to police their own actions and dress (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance leads Muslims to police their own actions and dress #expands (0.65) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 157
• Most surveilled Muslim Americans respond with self-discipline rather than resistance #expands (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 240