Government accusations of race war projected its own fear onto Muslims

Evidence

The government’s fear of Islamic political movements after World War II shows the ways in which state power was inscribed and enforced in this period. Islamophobia became a form of government discipline that utilized propaganda, violence, and fear. There was irony in the fact that the government frequently accused Muslims, especially the NOI, of fomenting a race war, when it was the government that actively fashioned Islam as a threat to US domestic peace, international relations, and civil rights. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 399

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates the projection/displacement mechanism the reader’s guiding questions ask about — the government accuses Muslims of exactly what the state itself does.
• SEED: Article angle: how institutional accusations of ‘fomenting violence’ routinely name the accuser’s own practices — the state as projector.