DHS imported Middle East sectarian divide-and-conquer strategy into US Muslim communities

Evidence

Turning Muslim Americans against one another, as native informants or community informants, watchdogs-for-hire or sectarian rivals, is a vital cog in the war-on-terror machine, and as exhibited by CVE policing, an evolving dimension of structural Islamophobia. While foreign policy tactics in the Middle East have long capitalized on intensifying sectarianism as a strategy for intensifying tumult, division, and conquest, DHS has wielded this very strategy at home, in the heart of Muslim American communities, to bring about the same end. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 410

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 410
• XREF: connects to: US Middle East alliances have repeatedly thwarted democracy — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 297; US counterterror policing imports Middle Eastern sectarian divides into domestic Muslim communities — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 395; Divide-and-conquer foreign policy tactics moved into domestic Muslim communities via CVE — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 409 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• DHS actively recruited Muslim community groups into CVE with multimillion-dollar grants #exemplifies (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 403
• Obama’s counter-radicalization strategy turned Muslim communities into informants #expands (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 582
• US administrations used symbolic inclusion of Islam to recruit Muslims into state interests. #expands (0.50)
• Liberal containment of Islamophobia serves counterinsurgency strategy, not tolerance #expands (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 574
• US counterterrorism agencies divide over whether Islam causes radicalization or merely justifies it #contradicts (0.40) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 490
• Islamophobic power can deploy oppositional tactics to advance Muslim marginalization #expands (0.40)