Personnel rotation between military, security, and policy realms sustains domestic Muslim targeting.
Evidence
The dichotomy between the conservative wing of the security apparatus and what might be called a “realist” wing is similar to that which exists in the foreign policy establishment. That such parallel views should exist within the security community is hardly surprising, given the interconnections between the political establishment, the military, and the legal system. Personnel often move from one realm to the other, carrying with them their backgrounds and points of view. For instance, about a third of the FBI’s counterterrorism staff has past military service in the Middle East. The “Muslim enemy” abroad and the one at home is fought using similar methods. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 613
Categorization
- XREF: Core to the reader’s stated question: the rotation circuit Kumar names is the sustaining mechanism they want to test; here it is operationalized concretely via the FBI’s Middle East veteran staff. — connects to: Personnel rotation across military, political, academic, and corporate spheres sustains empire; Personnel rotation across military, academic, and think-tank spheres sustains the Islamophobia industry; Divide-and-conquer foreign policy tactics moved into domestic Muslim communities via CVE — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 409
- QUESTION: The reader’s comparative test: does the military-veteran-to-domestic-policing rotation exist in European states whose Islamophobia is more colonial-domestic than imperial-export oriented?
Broader Connections
- Personnel rotation across military, academic, and think-tank spheres sustains the Islamophobia industry
#corroborates(0.95) - Divide-and-conquer foreign policy tactics moved into domestic Muslim communities via CVE
#expands(0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 409