State-fostered fear racializes Muslim bodies and strips Muslim Americans of American identity

Evidence

In a post-9/11 society, the state perpetuates a fear of terrorism within the public sphere in order to justify increased focus and spending on national security. This anxiety of Muslim terrorists produces a state of panic in the American public. … Another characteristic of the Muslim terrorist is that he is also a “global Muslim,” stripped of individuality based on nationality and culture. In the media, a Saudi Muslim is barely distinguishable from a Pakistani Muslim, as both simply invoke a fear of terrorism due to their religious identity. Similarly, the association of terror with Muslim bodies strips Muslim Americans of their American identity. Their racialized religious identity as a terrorist transforms their bodies into enemies of the state who must be policed and surveilled because they may commit acts of terror against the American people. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 33

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the core concept of ‘global Muslim’ — stripped of nationality and culture — central to how Selod defines racialization.
• XREF: Directly anchors/replaces the ‘Global Racial Enemy’ slot in the reader’s prior map; connects to Rana’s ‘The Muslim’ as a race category. — connects to: The national security state has racialized Muslims into a category vulnerable to premature death. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 52; Orientalism operates like the creation of Blackness as projected white-American fear — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 217