Conflating Arabs and South Asians creates a legible target for state policing

Evidence

Pakistan is recast as part of the Middle East through imagined geographies of conflict and through the construction of the figure of the Muslim in the global racial system. Thus, conflating such diverse populations as Arabs and South Asians into the racialized ”Muslim” produces a visible target of state regulation and policing for consuming publics. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 425 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: FBI surveillance of Muslims and South Asians remains largely undisclosed; American casting conflates Arabs and South Asians into a single racialized Muslim figure; Mapping Pakistan into the Middle East manufactures a target for state policing — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 425 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Mapping Pakistan into the Middle East manufactures a target for state policing #corroborates (0.92) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 425