Socioeconomic status does not protect Muslims from racialization during war

Evidence

In the decade after 9/11, the approach to law and order in the United States changed drastically with surveillance being a necessary and supported tactic in a society hyperconcerned with preventing another terrorist attack. Surveillance is the observation and monitoring of behaviors and actions that are deemed suspicious. The domestic and international War on Terror legitimizes the political and economic need for increased surveillance, resulting in the corporatization and federalization of surveillance. In other words, surveillance has become big business in the United States, where companies profit from surveillance technologies and tools, such as maintaining databases of information on the general public and then selling them to the government for purposes of security. A surveillance society can only survive as long as there is a need to monitor and observe bodies that threaten security. The War on Terror created conditions where Muslim bodies are racialized, justifying the need for their surveillance. But surveillance does not impact Muslim men and women in the same way; rather, surveillance is gendered, highlighting how racialization is also gendered. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Color prejudice blocked West Indian blacks even from war volunteering.; Anti-Muslim racism remains entrenched despite Muslim inclusion in imperial systems; The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (+7 more)

Related

• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (similarity 0.90)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.90)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. (similarity 0.86)
• The War on Terror shifted Muslim Americans down the racial hierarchy away from whiteness (similarity 0.86)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.85)
• The surveillance industry needs racialized Muslim bodies to justify its funding (similarity 0.85)
• The surveillance industry depends on racialized Muslim bodies to stay funded (similarity 0.84)
• State policies and individual citizen actions jointly maintain Muslims’ racialized surveillance (similarity 0.84)
• Class privilege fails to shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance. (similarity 0.84)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias (similarity 0.84)
• Economic privilege fails to secure full citizenship privileges for racialized Muslims (similarity 0.83)
• Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance (similarity 0.83)
• Each terrorist attack triggers renewed citizen anger and state surveillance against Muslims. (similarity 0.83)
• Surveillance requires a racialized threatening body to justify its existence (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance #corroborates (0.85)
• Muslims move down the racial hierarchy rather than becoming a new race #corroborates (0.60)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #corroborates (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29