NSA surveillance targets people solely because of Muslim heritage

Evidence

Given that the government’s justifications for subjecting [Faisal] Gill and the other U.S. citizens to surveillance remain classified, it is impossible to know why their emails were monitored, or the extent of the surveillance. … But the five individuals share one thing in common: Like many if not most of the people listed in the NSA spreadsheet, they are of Muslim heritage. (Greenwald and Hussain 2014) The Snowden leaks uncovered that state-led surveillance was not colorblind but rather based on religious identity. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 52

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds directly into the reader’s Global Racial Enemy map slot — replaces that slot with intimate, US-focused surveillance practice and links to Rana/Sian/COINTELPRO.