Ending anti-Muslim racism requires dismantling the national security state and class power.

Evidence

Combating anti-Muslim racism and various interconnected racisms more generally will require a great deal more than uniting in opposition to its most egregious manifestations. Moreover, it is necessary to recognize that anti-Muslim racism is systemic and not the product of a few “fringe” elements. From this flows the task of dismantling the institutional and structural foundations upon which anti-Muslim racism is built and which provide sustenance to its liberal, conservative, and reactionary variants. In other words, it is going to require a radical approach, one that gets at the very root of the problem, and that means, at a minimum, putting an end to the war on terror, dismantling the national security state, and undoing the class power that underpins that apparatus. That in turn is going to require the adoption of a politics that brings together various forms of oppression, racism alongside sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism, both within workplace struggles and mass social movements on a global scale. This may seem like a tall order, but if we set our sights on anything short of that, we would be underestimating both the real threat that the world faces at this moment and how best to fight it. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 766

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier book-arc claim that anti-Muslim racism is systemic rather than fringe — this is the concluding prescription that follows from that diagnosis. — connects to: Anti-Muslim racism is systemic, not fringe, and requires dismantling the national security state — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 766; Ending Islamophobia requires dismantling the war-on-terror security state; State surveillance and propaganda work in concert to produce systemic anti-Muslim racism

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim racism is systemic, not fringe, and requires dismantling the national security state #corroborates (1.00) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 766
• Ending Islamophobia requires dismantling the war-on-terror security state #corroborates (0.95)
• State surveillance and propaganda work in concert to produce systemic anti-Muslim racism #expands (0.85)