Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects

Evidence

The Department of Homeland Security’s Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI) is a collaborative project where federal, state, local, and tribal agencies gather information on suspicious behaviors that could be related to terrorism. In the case of post-­9/11 America, this distrust is rooted in xenophobic attitudes toward Islam and Muslims. Muslim Americans are treated differently than the rest of the population because they are categorized as potential terrorists and threats to Western values due to their religious identity. This justification of their surveillance is a part of their racialization. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern surveillance is structured by anti-Blackness — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2569; White nationalists fear converts through distinct gendered threat narratives — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 35; Fear of black Muslims uniting with colonized peoples drove FBI surveillance. (+47 more)

Related

• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims (similarity 0.93)
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims (similarity 0.92)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity (similarity 0.92)
• State surveillance jointly documents citizens and is justified by racialized religious identity (similarity 0.89)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias (similarity 0.88)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.87)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.87)
• State policies and individual citizen actions jointly maintain Muslims’ racialized surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• Muslim women are surveilled for cultural transgression while men are watched for terror potential (similarity 0.86)
• Terrorist racialization is gendered, targeting men differently than women (similarity 0.86)
• Each terrorist attack triggers renewed citizen anger and state surveillance against Muslims. (similarity 0.86)
• Gendered surveillance watches women for cultural transgression and men for terror. (similarity 0.85)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. (similarity 0.85)
• Muslim women are racialized as threats to values while men as threats to security (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Gender shapes both how Muslims are racialized and how they respond #expands (0.80)
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims #contradicts (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474