Muslim men self-censor politically because state surveillance targets them, unlike women watched by strangers

Evidence

Muslim American men told me one of the biggest changes they experienced after 9/11 was feeling they had to censor themselves in public spaces. Because Muslim men were more likely to be targeted by the state via TSA lists at airports and were not under the same kind of surveillance by strangers as Muslim women who wear the hijab, their responses to racialized surveillance differed. They told me they avoided discussing particular topics, such as religion or foreign policy, out of fear of being identified as a Muslim and associated or seen as sympathizing with terrorism. Some of the participants admitted to feeling nervous or afraid to speak freely about their religion or their political beliefs, such as their disapproval of American foreign policy toward Afghanistan, Iraq, or Palestine. This silencing angered many of the Muslim American men. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 420

Categorization

• XREF: The gendered split the reader explicitly asked about: men surveilled by the state (TSA lists), women by strangers’ gaze — a clean mechanism contrast to hold against Beydoun.