Obama’s CVE program rewarded some Muslims while criminalizing dissident ones

Evidence

Obama continued counter-radicalization policies targeting Muslims under the rubric “countering violent extremism” (CVE). To “break the radicalization cycle,” the Obama administration promoted Religious and Secular Racial Muslims while simultaneously criminalizing Religious Dissident Muslims. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 947

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader scholarship on ‘model minority’ co-optation and the state shaping of acceptable dissent. — connects to: The CVE program uniquely recruits Muslims as security-state agents.