Preemptive FBI strategy assumed Muslims were guilty and induced latent terrorist tendencies.

Evidence

After 9/11, the FBI adopted a preemptive strategy in its counterterrorism measures. It relied increasingly on informants and agents provocateurs, individuals tasked with inciting others to engage in terrorism so that they could be identified and arrested. In other words, the FBI secretly infiltrated Muslim communities, targeting individuals who were not engaged in criminal activity in an effort to transform them into terrorism suspects. The idea was to stop terrorism at its roots, before it had a chance to materialize and do damage, but it was based on the assumption that Muslims were already guilty of terrorism. On this model, the job of law enforcement was to induce Muslims to actualize their latent terrorist tendencies. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 568

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bears on the reader’s question of where anti-Muslim animus crystallizes into a causal theory of suspicion — the presumption of latent guilt parallels the definitional exclusion of Muslims from the ‘human’ too. — connects to: Muslims are presumed predisposed to terrorism, making entrapment defenses fail. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 570; Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282; Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise #corroborates (0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282
• Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586
• Muslims are presumed guilty until proven innocent in US enforcement #corroborates (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 448
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.80)
• Muslims are presumed terrorists until interrogation proves otherwise #corroborates (0.75)
• The FBI secretly placed tracking devices on cars of ordinary young American Muslims #exemplifies (0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 768
• A presumption of guilt until proven innocent defines Islamophobia #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 281
• The FBI treated black Islam as a political sign regardless of actual loyalty #exemplifies (0.70)
• US policy frames the world’s 2 billion Muslims as presumptive terrorists. #expands (0.65)
• Perceived surveillance pressure drives Muslims to preemptively perform anti-terror condemnation #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 623
• Fear of black Muslims uniting with colonized peoples drove FBI surveillance. #expands (0.60)
• FBI informants manufactured terror plots that would not otherwise have occurred #complicates (0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 473