Muslims are positioned as an external threat against America’s internal enemies.

Evidence

Structural Islamophobia, the second dimension, is the fear and suspicion of Muslims on the part of government institutions and actors. This fear and suspicion are manifested and enforced through the enactment and advancement of laws, policy, and programming built upon the presumption that Muslim identity is associated with a national security threat. These laws, policies, and programs may be explicitly discriminatory, like the first and second Muslim bans, which explicitly restricted immigrants from Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States. Others may seem neutral, having been framed in generally applicable terms, when in practice they are disproportionately enforced against Muslim subjects and communities. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 123 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

The clash of civilizations explanation reduced the conflict between radical Muslim terrorism and the West to something inherent within Islam (and thus something that can only be fixed within Islam). On this understanding, the irrational anger and hatred of Muslims toward the West leads some Muslims to use the teachings of Islam to justify their terrorist activities against innocent people. Neither the Bush administration nor the larger political establishment devoted much effort to reflecting critically on the history of Western involvement in the Muslim world, nor did they seriously consider whether the particular economic and political grievances toward the West articulated by many Muslims, not just the small minority of terrorists, might require a significant rethinking of foreign policy to minimize the chance of future attacks. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 266 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Private citizens surveil Muslim religious practice as a threat to American values.; Terrorism and extremism are treated as exclusive to Islam; Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims. (+9 more)

Related

• Anti-terror and immigration policies become conflated in framing Muslims as foreign enemies (similarity 0.86)
• Islam in America operates as a political identity of otherness beyond religion (similarity 0.84)
• Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security (similarity 0.84)
• Perceiving Muslims as disloyal shifts the policy frame from anti-discrimination to securitization. (similarity 0.84)
• The radicalized Muslim threat narrative is a fear instrument rather than a safety measure (similarity 0.83)
• Private citizens surveil Muslim religious practice as a threat to American values. (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim Americans appeared only as hypothetical threat in 1789, not as real persons (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia is powered by the overlap of Muslims being both inside and outside (similarity 0.83)
• The West’s question should be why it fears Muslims, not why they hate us (similarity 0.83)
• European terror attacks justify US proposals to ban and intern Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobes, not Muslims, constitute the gravest threat to American civil liberties (similarity 0.82)
• American Islamophobia positioned Muslims as a wholly external other unlike domestic religious minorities (similarity 0.82)
• Clash of civilizations framing located terrorism’s cause within Islam itself (similarity 0.82)
• The prospect of mass internment occupies the center of the collective Muslim American psyche. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia adapts to each society’s own governing concerns (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Private citizens surveil Muslim religious practice as a threat to American values. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security #exemplifies (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 123
• Clash of civilizations framing located terrorism’s cause within Islam itself #expands (0.65) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 266
• Terrorism and extremism are treated as exclusive to Islam #expands (0.60)
• Anti-Islamic fear imagined Muslims colonizing America into apostasy from afar. #expands (0.60) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 81
• Islam in America operates as a political identity of otherness beyond religion #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 69
• Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims. #complicates (0.55)
• European terror attacks justify US proposals to ban and intern Muslims #expands (0.55)