Radical Islamic critique of US policy gets suppressed regardless of threat

Evidence

Focusing on doctrinal differences between black and brown, preand post-9/11 Muslims, however, covers up a critical link between our current age and that of the Black Muslim Scare. Despite the great differences between the 1960s and the post-9/11 era, there is one critical similarity: Expressions of Islam that make radical critiques of the United States will be suppressed, even if they do not pose a direct security threat to the nation-state. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 415

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Relocates the target of intolerance from doctrinal deviance (black vs. brown Sunni theology) to political dissent itself - suppression targets critique of the state, not faith content. This is the volume’s central pivot distilled.
• XREF: Belongs in the direct comparison with Beydoun and other chapters evaluating which most sharply relocates the problem from ‘them’ to ‘us’ - the frightened state suppressing speech. — connects to: The terrorism label is a trans-ideological tool for suppressing dissent, not Muslim-specific — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 643