Legal surveillance of Muslims shifted the feared enemy from abroad to home.

Evidence

As Abed Ayoub argues, starting with Operation Boulder in the Nixon administration to the National Security Entry and Exist Registration System in the post 9/11 era, the far enemy of the Islamist terrorist is feared to be the near enemy at home. For the past fifty years, Muslims have been subject to scrutiny, arrest, incarceration, and deportation based on terrorism charges even when they have committed no violent acts. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 245

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the racialization-as-legal-control thread from Aziz’s Racial Muslim by pinning the far-enemy/near-enemy slippage to specific programs (Operation Boulder, NSEERS). — connects to: War on Terror tactics used abroad were reimported to police domestic Muslims. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 267; Proximity converted a remote global Muslim threat into a domestic one; The War on Terror exported Muslim-suspicion doctrine that nations adapted locally — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 67 (+6 more)
• ADDENDUM: The near-enemy-at-home framing parallels how the sacrificial/scapegoat logic in the sacrifice article channels anxiety onto a designated internal group.

Broader Connections

• War on Terror tactics used abroad were reimported to police domestic Muslims. #expands (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 267
• CVE shifted counterterrorism focus from foreign groups to homegrown Muslims. #expands (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 363
• Proximity converted a remote global Muslim threat into a domestic one #expands (0.88)
• The Obama era shifted the war on terror narrative toward homegrown Muslim threat. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Domesticating the Muslim threat made it feel closer and more dangerous #expands (0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 236
• CIA surveillance technology deployed abroad was used domestically against Muslims. #expands (0.80)
• Media coverage of Muslim arrests shifted citizens into the enemy category #expands (0.78)
• The War on Terror exported Muslim-suspicion doctrine that nations adapted locally #qualifies (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 67
• The War on Terror legitimizes expanded police repression at home #corroborates (0.75)