Private citizens surveil Muslim religious practice as a threat to American values.

Evidence

The interviews also revealed that South Asian and Arab men and women, regardless of their status as Americans, were surveilled by both the state and their fellow citizens because of their religious identity. South Asian and Arab Muslim Americans had similar experiences to one another because of the way their religious identity was interpreted. Their ethnicity as South Asian or Arab intersected with their Muslim identity and gender in salient ways that impacted social interactions in their everyday lives because it had made them a target for surveillance. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslims are positioned as an external threat against America’s internal enemies.; Muslim Americans appeared only as hypothetical threat in 1789, not as real persons; American society explains rare Muslim terror through religion itself (+13 more)

Related

• No US religious community endures such simultaneous embrace and surveillance (similarity 0.88)
• Citizens surveil hijabi women for supposedly violating American values (similarity 0.85)
• Even Muslim civil rights organizations are surveilled and discredited by the state (similarity 0.85)
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship (similarity 0.85)
• Religious practices get reframed as security threats justifying citizen surveillance (similarity 0.84)
• Private citizens surveil Muslim women for cultural transgression and men for security threats (similarity 0.84)
• Racialized religious signifiers trigger hostile surveillance interactions with state and citizens (similarity 0.84)
• Private citizens surveil hijabi women and recast their dress as un-American (similarity 0.84)
• Private citizens’ discriminatory acts get reinforced by state security policies (similarity 0.83)
• Muslims are positioned as an external threat against America’s internal enemies. (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim Americans appeared only as hypothetical threat in 1789, not as real persons (similarity 0.83)
• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans (similarity 0.83)
• The USA PATRIOT Act produced the surveillance society that made Muslim bodies constantly monitored (similarity 0.83)
• Private citizens surveil hijab-wearing women and challenge their American identity (similarity 0.82)
• State surveillance policies push Muslims to strengthen a targeted identity (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Surveilled Muslim Americans internalize the state gaze through self-censure and modified dress #expands (0.80)
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship #corroborates (0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104
• Hostile public scrutiny becomes internalized as the architecture of Muslim American identity #expands (0.75)
• Religious identity replaced ethnicity as the marker making Muslim Americans seen as anti-American #corroborates (0.70)
• Islamophobes, not Muslims, constitute the gravest threat to American civil liberties #corroborates (0.60)