Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims.

Evidence

The upshot of this propaganda is that few in the media challenged the King hearings, giving credence to the notion that Muslims are in fact being “radicalized” and need to be questioned and monitored in ways similar to the “reds” in the Cold War era. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 559 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The politique des races included campaigns against Muslim religious elites.; Antiterrorism frames enemies as aberrant individuals rather than political claimants. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 279; Muslims are presumed predisposed to terrorism, making entrapment defenses fail. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 570 (+29 more)

Related

• Unchallenged propaganda legitimized monitoring Muslims like Cold War reds (similarity 0.88)
• Islamophobic propaganda about mosques seeded hearings and counterterror surveilling of Muslim communities (similarity 0.84)
• Covert policies couched as counterterrorism provoked no protest while overt anti-Muslim rhetoric did. (similarity 0.83)
• Antiterrorism frames enemies as aberrant individuals rather than political claimants. (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Muslim propaganda videos drew mainstream security officials as participants (similarity 0.82)
• Terrorism and extremism are treated as exclusive to Islam (similarity 0.82)
• Radicalization theory was designed to serve counterterrorism policy, not truth (similarity 0.82)
• Counter-radicalization conflates perpetrators’ religion with causes of terrorism. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-terror and immigration policies become conflated in framing Muslims as foreign enemies (similarity 0.81)
• The false eighty-percent-mosque claim circulated unchallenged across mainstream media (similarity 0.81)
• Muslims are uniquely cast as counterterrorism soldiers while white Americans never are (similarity 0.81)
• Liberal Islamophobia rejects blatant rhetoric while instituting the same Muslim racialization policies (similarity 0.81)
• Radicalization discourse was built to serve counterterrorism policy, not science. (similarity 0.81)
• Liberal opposition to Islamophobia masks complicity in state targeting of Muslims. (similarity 0.80)
• An unchallenged false mosque statistic legitimized McCarthy-style Muslim monitoring (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.80)
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #corroborates (0.80)
• Unchallenged propaganda legitimized monitoring Muslims like Cold War reds #corroborates (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 559
• Liberal containment of Islamophobia serves counterinsurgency strategy, not tolerance #corroborates (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 574
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #corroborates (0.65) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421