Detention renders Muslim detainees as less than human through socially inflicted death

Evidence

Muslim men are so dehumanized that since 9/11 they have become less than zero, an example of Agamben’s “bare life,” reduced to bodies held indefinitely, stripped of all legal rights afforded under US domestic and international law, force-fed like animals. The stripping of identity, displays of sadomasochism and other sexual fantasies, and the manipulation of multiple bodies through hooding and piles of naked bodies are examples of biopower (the technology of power that manages human bodies). These acts recall terrible visions embedded in our collective historical memory, including “genocidal mass executions and graves.” Such crimes are not explained simply by the culture of the military industrial establishment. They are also an effect of fantasies about Muslims as non-human- An imperative point regarding the vocabulary used in this study is that the history of Muslim monsters is distinguished from what we think of as “Islamophobia,” the particularistic attitude toward Muslims that scholars have often described as an aversion to or “anxiety of Islam.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 21 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Immigration detention strips dignity through powerlessness and a dumped presumption of guilt; Detention and deportation regimes discipline the Muslim body through fear; US treatment of Muslim detainees derives from fantasies of Muslims as non-human — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 21 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• US treatment of Muslim detainees derives from fantasies of Muslims as non-human #corroborates (0.95) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 21