National security law became a pretext to silence dissident religious Muslims

Evidence

But American Muslims’ donations to Islamic charities are meant to provide humanitarian aid to civilians devastated by US sanctions against Iraq, Iran, Somalia, and other Muslim-majority countries. In other words, apparently neutral national security laws, policies, and discourses have become pretexts to silence Religious Dissident Muslims. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 910

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the standing claim about decorum toward corpses here only loosely, but strongly connects to protest-suppression and pretext-policing literatures. — connects to: U.S. lawmakers framed devout Muslim practice as treasonous grounds for military exclusion — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 285; The national security state has racialized Muslims into a category vulnerable to premature death. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 52; National security law legally overrides protections against racial profiling of Muslims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 552 (+1 more)