Islamophobic state responses are dramatized as internal security-bureaucracy conflict

Evidence

The book is, thus, in part about the sins of fathers and how they can return to haunt the present, the personal colliding with the political to produce what the novel describes as “untidy history.” At the start, Hamburg is a city still trying to expiate its own guilt at playing host to the 9/11 plotters, the so-called Hamburg Cell. As the story progresses, the different responses to the resulting political pressures are played out in the complex internal politics of the German intelligence and security communities— a running feud “between those determined to defend civil rights at all costs, and those determined to curtail them in the name of national security” (103). Into this cauldron comes Issa, arriving at Hamburg’s railway station—itself a place of transit and provisionality—where he first appears on the security radar. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 327

Categorization

• XREF: Security-state civil-liberties feud resembles the post-9/11 climate Naqvi renders through Pakistani and US agencies. — connects to: Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83; Internecine government feuding persisted even under existential threat from ISIS. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2500
• DEFINE: Introduces the security-versus-civil-rights dyad that organizes the novel’s critique.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83; Internecine government feuding persisted even under existential threat from ISIS. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2500