FBI visits to Muslim men often track their political speech rather than suspected terror

Evidence

Neither Tariq nor Maryam knew if these visits were inspired by private citizen surveillance or if it was because the FBI had been surveilling their fathers for their political views: Tariq suspected his dad was under surveillance because he had been vocal about his pro-­Palestinian views, and Maryam thought hers was visited because of his political views on the Middle East. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 471

Categorization

• QUESTION: Feeds the MOC thread directly: speech about Palestine is the activating exposure for male surveillance, complicating any clean internal-vs-external enemy split.

Related

• FBI surveillance of Muslim Americans falls disproportionately on men. (similarity 0.86)
• Political speech by Palestinian immigrants triggers FBI surveillance regardless of views (similarity 0.86)
• The ADL supplied names of Palestinian activists to the FBI (similarity 0.82)
• Surveillance of men can sweep their female relatives into interrogation (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim men self-censor politically because state surveillance targets them, unlike women watched by strangers (similarity 0.79)
• The state’s terrorist image is constructed as Muslim and male. (similarity 0.78)
• Private-citizen surveillance of Muslims is gendered in its forms and justifications. (similarity 0.78)