FBI surveillance drives Muslim congregations to self-police and Americanize

Evidence

The American government has also played another role in producing the Muslim first identity by categorizing all Muslims indiscriminately through its policies. For example, state policies like the National Security Entry-­Exit Registration System (NSEERS), which required Muslim men to register with the state, and Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban have both targeted Muslims arbitrarily. South Asians and Arabs living in the United States who identify as Muslim are seen as potential threats to the state. While some may respond by downplaying their religious identity, many react by strengthening an identity that is under attack. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 137 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

This act of denying Muslims their American identity is a racializing act and is accomplished through hypersurveillance. The belief that to be American is to be white is resurfacing as Muslims are made to feel they are incapable of being loyal to America because their bodies are equated with terror and their values are somehow antithetical to Western or American ones. In many ways, it feels as if America is revisiting its past: the early twentieth century, when South Asian men desperately fought for naturalization were denied it because their religious identity situated them as incapable of sharing Western values. The act of racialized surveillance is also an act that strips one of citizenship. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: FBI discipline of black religion proceeded through profiling and cataloging; The FBI secretly placed tracking devices on cars of ordinary young American Muslims — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 768; Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104 (+22 more)

Related

• The USA PATRIOT Act produced the surveillance society that made Muslim bodies constantly monitored (similarity 0.89)
• State surveillance policies push Muslims to strengthen a targeted identity (similarity 0.88)
• No US religious community endures such simultaneous embrace and surveillance (similarity 0.88)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship (similarity 0.87)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity (similarity 0.86)
• State surveillance policies intensify rather than suppress Muslim religious identity (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance makes Muslim men strategically perform loyalty to manage others’ suspicions (similarity 0.86)
• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship (similarity 0.86)
• Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans. (similarity 0.85)
• Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance (similarity 0.85)
• State surveillance targets religious identity rather than class or political loyalty (similarity 0.85)
• The government actively recruits Muslim Americans to police their own communities for extremism. (similarity 0.84)
• Surveillance and stigma prompted Detroit Muslims to build institutional infrastructure simultaneously (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• State surveillance policies push Muslims to strengthen a targeted identity #contradicts (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 137
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #responds-to (0.65)
• Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance #expands (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims #responds-to (0.60)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity #expands (0.60)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658
• State surveillance escalates with how visibly Muslim a person is #expands (0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 380