Religious framing of terrorism justifies state expansion that erodes due process

Evidence

The state’s rubber-stamping of widely held stereotypes of Islam and Muslims, through the enactment of surveillance programs, religious and racial profiling, restrictive immigration policies, and the war-on-terror campaign, is the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia. This exchange—by which citizens absorb the suspicion and demonization the state assigns to Muslims by way of (structural Islamophobic) law or state action—is an ongoing dialectic that links state policy to hate and violence unleashed by private citizens. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Refusing equal value of lives yields state terrorism and philosopher-executioners; State security forces may have perpetrated massacres later blamed on Islamists. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 42; Clash of civilizations framing located terrorism’s cause within Islam itself — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 266 (+12 more)

Related

• The state perpetuates Islam-violence associations to justify expanding its authority (similarity 0.88)
• State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance (similarity 0.83)
• Perceiving Muslims as disloyal shifts the policy frame from anti-discrimination to securitization. (similarity 0.82)
• Religious explanations of terrorist violence serve to expand state surveillance powers. (similarity 0.81)
• Clash of civilizations framing located terrorism’s cause within Islam itself (similarity 0.81)
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias (similarity 0.80)
• State security forces may have perpetrated massacres later blamed on Islamists. (similarity 0.80)
• Market incentives drive the media to reinforce rather than challenge religious explanations of terrorism (similarity 0.80)
• Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security (similarity 0.80)
• Muslims are positioned as an external threat against America’s internal enemies. (similarity 0.79)
• The state exploits public insecurity to legitimize Islamophobia. (similarity 0.79)
• State repression, not just culture, sustained American Islamophobia (similarity 0.79)
• Islam-terror association embedded in national security laws changed Muslims’ experiences (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #expands (0.70)
• State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia #corroborates (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136
• Market incentives drive the media to reinforce rather than challenge religious explanations of terrorism #expands (0.60)
• Crisis-time scapegoating of religious out-groups masks political and economic causes #complicates (0.50)
• Visible Muslim religious practice invites state suspicion and hate-motivated backlash #complicates (0.40) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 540
• Islamophobic terrorism operates on incoherent, circular grievances #corroborates (0.40) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 67