French and American counter-radicalization programs both use Muslim informants to suppress religious expression.
Evidence
As in the United States, counter-radicalization programs disproportionately victimize poor Muslims in France. Emulating the parasitic dynamic unfolding in Muslim communities and enclaves in the United States, police and Muslim informants collaborate in France in an effort to keep tabs on subjects of interest and suppress religious expression—such as the wearing of a hijab—that the state conflates with subordination and extremism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 771
Categorization
- XREF: Explicitly asserts the cross-national emulation the reader is hunting for: France copying American counter-radicalization methods.
- SHARE: The specific mechanism of Muslim informants collaborating with police against hijab-wearing is one to send to someone tracking surveillance of Muslim communities.