Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance

Evidence

Was Hicks’s fear and hatred of Islam irrational, or was it fueled by the stereotypes of the faith and its followers he regularly heard on the radio and watched on television, and, therefore, rational? Furthermore, was he a deviant actor whose horrific acts were the result of his own motives alone? Or was Hicks collaborating in the broader national project of policing, prosecuting, and punishing Muslims—the formal mission of the war on terror, that ambiguous and unconventional war authorized by counterterror laws like the USA PATRIOT Act, Countering Violent Extremism, and, two years after the triple murder, the Muslim ban enacted by President Trump? — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101

Categorization

• XREF: The reader’s guiding question about where dialectical Islamophobia turns is answered here: the author deliberately poses this exact question as a live, unresolved one. — connects to: Hate must be cultivated and performed, not merely felt; Jim Crow terror produced a protective rationale for beating children — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5182; Semantic and philosophical redefinitions are being weaponized to legitimate state violence. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 122 (+17 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance #exemplifies (0.90)
• State denunciation of hate crimes obscures state complicity in producing those harms #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 33
• Framing discrimination as individual hate obscures its structural and policy-based causes #expands (0.80) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 34
• Ordinary people can commit extreme brutality under the right circumstances #expands (0.75) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 1