CVE policing treated religious piety as a signal of radicalization.

Evidence

In 2014, the Department of Homeland Security named Minneapolis as one of the pilot cities where Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) policing would be implemented. CVE was a recently established program, formally implemented by the Obama administration in 2011, whereby local law enforcement (the Minneapolis Police Department) collaborated closely with federal security agents to help identify prospective “homegrown radicals” and try to prevent them from enlisting with a terrorist organization or taking part in a terror attack. CVE policing focused almost entirely on Muslims and concentrated on Muslim communities like the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis that Ahmed called home. Religious piety was considered by CVE policing policy to be one of the signals of a Muslim becoming radicalized, particularly when the shift toward religiosity was an abrupt one. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 360

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines CVE — the signature Obama-era structural Islamophobia program — and its core presumption that piety signals radicalization.
• QUESTION: The claim that piety itself flagged risk is worth pressing — typical signal data, abrupt-change metrics, who operationalized it.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 360
• XREF: connects to: The NYPD radicalization theory equated growing piety with growing terrorist risk. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 574; Anti-terror policing may have created a new offense of political protest while Muslim. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 583; CVE engagement localized the Muslim-terrorism presumption on police and communities — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 328 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Visible religious practice gets read as potential for radicalization #corroborates (0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 401
• NYPD’s radicalization model makes Muslim identity itself a predictor of terrorism #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 486
• Islamic religious piety inversely correlates with attraction to violent extremist groups. #contradicts (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 476
• Religious identity can be racialized when signifiers trigger profiling #expands (0.70)
• Radicalization is theorized as an exclusively Muslim phenomenon #complicates (0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 377