Ordinary immigration violations are routinely relabeled as terrorism charges
Evidence
A 2011 report appropriately titled Under the Radar: Muslims Deported, Detained, and Denied on Unsubstantiated Terrorism Allegations, released by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University Law School, documents the ways in which the law has been used to “cast Muslims as dangerous threats to national security.” The report argues that “religious, cultural, and political affiliations and lawful activities of Muslims are being construed as dangerous terrorism-related factors to justify detention, deportation, and denial of immigration benefits.” One way in which this has happened is that Muslims have been presented as terrorists in cases that are actually about immigration violations. Charges brought against Muslim immigrants “are almost always ordinary immigration violations,” the report states, yet the government has routinely insinuated connections to terrorism without providing any proof of these allegations. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 455
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Replacement logic makes any moderate immigration position an accusation target — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 123; Routine Muslim religious practice is legally treated as evidence of terrorist predisposition — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 463; Immigration agents presumed Middle Easterners Muslim and therefore unassimilable — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 179 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Terrorist designations function as tools to criminalize Muslim civic participation.
#expands(0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 665 - Routine Muslim religious practice is legally treated as evidence of terrorist predisposition
#corroborates(0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 463 - Immigration agents presumed Middle Easterners Muslim and therefore unassimilable
#expands(0.40) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 179