Counterterrorism programs like CVE target and criminalize black Muslims and activists

Evidence

Omar’s focus on systemic racism extends to the racialization of Muslims in counterterrorism. “Programs like Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) and the Black Identity Extremism program,” she states, “function to monitor and criminalize black immigrants and African-Americans, especially black Muslims. They are based on a model of racial profiling and meant to incite fear and the suppression of black organizers and activists.” … Omar’s dissident politics, Somali heritage, and headscarf mark her as a Religious Dissident Racial Muslim. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1058

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how security frameworks encode racial target selection — relevant alongside browsing to one’s prior notes on COINTELPRO-era state surveillance of black organizers. — connects to: War on Terror policing reused COINTELPRO tactics first deployed against Black activists — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 263
• QUESTION: The Black Identity Extremism program’s overlap with anti-Muslim counterterrorism raises the question of how FBI threat classifications have historically merged racial and religious targeting — worth chasing the DOJ inspector general findings.