Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance

Evidence

Reda Shata learned firsthand why it doesn’t pay to associate with the law enforcement establishment. He worked with the FBI and the police, inviting officers to his mosque for breakfast and even dining with Mayor Bloomberg. He personified everything that American imperialism has defined as a “good Muslim.” Yet an undercover police officer and an informant were assigned to spy on him and to keep tabs on his mosque. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586

Categorization

• XREF: Strongly parallels Sherene Razack’s ‘good Muslim/bad Muslim’ discourse and Grosfoguel/Rana’s racialization scholarship. — connects to: Preemptive FBI strategy assumed Muslims were guilty and induced latent terrorist tendencies. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 568; Fear of black Muslims uniting with colonized peoples drove FBI surveillance.; The FBI treated black Islam as a political sign regardless of actual loyalty (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims #qualifies (0.70)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #exemplifies (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship #corroborates (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #expands (0.60)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658