Muslim identity is criminalized by national security policies

Evidence

Racialization criminalizes Muslim identity. Presumptions that Muslims are more prone to terrorism inform US national security policies and practices. The consequent harms to Muslim communities range from direct employment discrimination, violent hate crimes, and denial of new mosque constructions to indirect chilling effects wherein surveillance and antiterrorism prosecutions cause Muslims to hide their religious identity or circumscribe how they practice their faith in public. Hence being Muslim in the post-9/11 era imposes forms of subordination not currently experienced by other religious minorities. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 874

Categorization

• XREF: Chilling-effect argument echoes my notes on how surveillance causes people to hide religious identity; parallels the silencing-of-lived-experience theme in the silence/Deep Listening readings. — connects to: The national security state has racialized Muslims into a category vulnerable to premature death. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 52; Tens of thousands of US Muslims faced registry, arbitrary arrest, detention or deportation; National security law legally overrides protections against racial profiling of Muslims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 552 (+4 more)