Muslims are uniquely cast as counterterrorism soldiers while white Americans never are

Evidence

“It’s weird how politicians keep telling me I’m on the front line of fighting terrorism when I’m just trying to get through a sugar detox,” replied St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Aisha Sultan concerning Hillary’s remarks about Muslims. “I’m not being flippant about the role American Muslims should play about reporting anything dangerous they hear whether in a mosque or anywhere else. We all bear that responsibility. But I’ve never heard anyone talk like that. And, I don’t hear candidates telling white Americans to be on the front lines to fight school shootings,” Sultan continued. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 711

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the Clinton/Minhaj counterterrorism-framing thread to a striking asymmetry claim about white Americans and school shootings. — connects to: Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters; The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists.; Whiteness is categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism regardless of evidence (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 711

Related

• Powell’s study concludes that white, non-Muslim men who commit domestic terrorism or other mass shootings are frequently described as being ‘mentally unstable,’ whereas Muslim terrorists are… (similarity 0.84)
• Counterterrorism targets Muslims while downplaying surging White supremacist violence (similarity 0.84)
• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters (similarity 0.83)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias (similarity 0.82)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.82)
• Liberal inclusive language still frames Muslims only as terror informants (similarity 0.82)
• Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
• Radicalization discourse was built to serve counterterrorism policy, not science. (similarity 0.81)
• The radicalized Muslim threat narrative is a fear instrument rather than a safety measure (similarity 0.80)
• Nearly eight in ten US domestic terror attacks in 2018 were white supremacy motivated. (similarity 0.80)
• Radicalization theory was designed to serve counterterrorism policy, not truth (similarity 0.80)
• White supremacist violence is analyzed without racial profiling theories. (similarity 0.80)
• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. (similarity 0.80)
• Lax US gun laws let white supremacist hate crimes threaten everyone (similarity 0.80)
• Terrorism and extremism are treated as exclusive to Islam (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters #corroborates (0.85)
• Whiteness is categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism regardless of evidence #corroborates (0.85)
• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. #corroborates (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #expands (0.70)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias #corroborates (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 487
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29