Fear of black Muslims uniting with colonized peoples drove FBI surveillance.

Evidence

Muslims are racialized via a differential allocation of rewards when their bodies are unfairly criminalized rather than protected by the state. In other words, their surveillance casts them as threats as opposed to citizens worthy of state protection. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 209 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: 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; Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586; Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 209 (+5 more)

Related

• Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance (similarity 0.93)
• The FBI surveilled black Muslims as seditious threats more than white Arab immigrants (similarity 0.86)
• The FBI treated black Islam as a political sign regardless of actual loyalty (similarity 0.86)
• The FBI conflated Black Muslim anti-racism with sedition and imperialism critique (similarity 0.84)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. (similarity 0.84)
• Even high-ranking Muslim American officials were surveilled without criminal cause (similarity 0.82)
• FBI surveillance drives Muslim congregations to self-police and Americanize (similarity 0.82)
• Preemptive FBI strategy assumed Muslims were guilty and induced latent terrorist tendencies. (similarity 0.82)
• FBI required mosques to preach a state-sanctioned version of Islam (similarity 0.82)
• Even model pro-state Muslim collaborators remain permanent police suspects (similarity 0.82)
• The FBI treated Black Muslims’ political Islam as a national security threat for decades. (similarity 0.82)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (similarity 0.81)
• The surveillance industry needs racialized Muslim bodies to justify its funding (similarity 0.81)
• The surveillance industry depends on racialized Muslim bodies to stay funded (similarity 0.81)
• Black Muslims were FBI-targeted for Islamic practice voicing anti-imperial resistance. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The US government manufactured Islamophobia as a disciplinary technique against black political activism #corroborates (0.60)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 209
• Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance #qualifies (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.50)