Media narratives mark Muslims as bodies that require surveilling

Evidence

These narratives of Muslims as terrorist, backward, misogynistic, and antidemocratic impact Muslim Americans in their everyday lives. Since the terrorist attacks, the American population has been encouraged to participate in surveillance in order to ensure national security. The messages the media perpetuates about Muslims, coupled with Islamophobic rhetoric by groups like Pamela Geller’s, reinforce the idea that Muslims are the bodies that require surveilling. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 250

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up Selod’s core mechanism: how discourse produces the surveilled subject; the civilian-informant dimension of surveillance.
• XREF: connects to: Sustained media focus reframed Muslim citizens as enemies of the state; Islamophobic propaganda about mosques seeded hearings and counterterror surveilling of Muslim communities — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 697; Hindutva narration casts Muslims as violators of the sacred Hindu body to justify dominance. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 112