Even exemplary good Muslims are simultaneously surveilled as suspects

Evidence

After hours of questioning, the agent finally said to them, “I guess you’re not terrorists.” This comment shows that Muslim bodies are equated with their potentiality to commit terror until proven otherwise. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282 (#expands, via linked claim)

As the AVOT statement makes clear, it is not simply the violent section of the Islamist movement that they wish to “research,” but “Islam and Islamism” as a whole. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that simply being a Muslim makes you worthy of suspicion, according to this logic. Drawing a page from the McCarthyist playbook, Gaffney was one of many who claimed that Obama might be a “secret Muslim.” The implication, of course, is that being a Muslim is sufficient cause for not trusting him. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 540 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even model pro-state Muslim collaborators remain permanent police suspects — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 629; Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282; Anti-Muslim suspicion targets all Muslims, not just violent extremists — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 540 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise #expands (0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282
• Anti-Muslim suspicion targets all Muslims, not just violent extremists #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 540
• Muslim community leaders can be simultaneously partnered with and spied upon by police #exemplifies (0.85)
• Even high-ranking Muslim American officials were surveilled without criminal cause #exemplifies (0.82)
• British Muslims face a double bind of suspicion either way they engage #corroborates (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 36
• Muslims are presumed terrorists until interrogation proves otherwise #expands (0.80)
• Muslims are presumed guilty until proven innocent in US enforcement #expands (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 448
• CVE policing rewards compliant Muslims and suspects critical ones #corroborates (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 396