Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship

Evidence

This act of denying Muslims their American identity is a racializing act and is accomplished through hypersurveillance. The belief that to be American is to be white is resurfacing as Muslims are made to feel they are incapable of being loyal to America because their bodies are equated with terror and their values are somehow antithetical to Western or American ones. In many ways, it feels as if America is revisiting its past: the early twentieth century, when South Asian men desperately fought for naturalization were denied it because their religious identity situated them as incapable of sharing Western values. The act of racialized surveillance is also an act that strips one of citizenship. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the early-20th-century South Asian naturalization denial precedent — a historical parallel connecting to the reader’s COINTELPRO/forever-suspect frame. — connects to: Modern surveillance is structured by anti-Blackness — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2569; Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 412; The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29 (+32 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #corroborates (0.85)
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims #corroborates (0.80)
• The surveillance gaze denies Muslim Americans the psychological privileges of citizenship #expands (0.70)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity #corroborates (0.60)
• Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance #expands (0.60)
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.60)
• The surveillance industry needs racialized Muslim bodies to justify its funding #expands (0.60)
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474
• The surveillance industry depends on racialized Muslim bodies to stay funded #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 671
• Blanket accusations of Muslims justify state surveillance by identity #corroborates (0.55)
• Surveillance targets a Muslim name, not religious belief, making it racial discrimination #qualifies (0.50)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias #expands (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 487