State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies

Evidence

Both are cultures embedded within government institutions. Both have preexisting narratives and propagate stereotypes based on understanding a people in flat, damaging, and subhuman terms, stories that are then institutionalized at every level of public and private organizations, institutions, and agencies. These stories are manifested in seemingly benign decisions or routine functions that bring about a discriminatory end, and sometimes through actions whose explicit intention is to bring about a discriminatory end. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 130 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other; State security forces may have perpetrated massacres later blamed on Islamists. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 42; Fear of Muslim takeover redirected Breivik’s violence onto the state. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 606 (+81 more)

Related

• The state attacked the Nation of Islam as race rather than religion (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance (similarity 0.85)
• Fear of Muslim takeover redirected Breivik’s violence onto the state. (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias (similarity 0.84)
• The state exploits public insecurity to legitimize Islamophobia. (similarity 0.83)
• State-fostered fear racializes Muslim bodies and strips Muslim Americans of American identity (similarity 0.83)
• The state perpetuates Islam-violence associations to justify expanding its authority (similarity 0.83)
• State Islamophobia has always been entangled with US racial classification, splitting Muslims by race. (similarity 0.82)
• Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security (similarity 0.82)
• State repression, not just culture, sustained American Islamophobia (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia and racial prejudice are entangled in distinct ways across Western contexts (similarity 0.82)
• Racialization of Muslims operates through daily citizen interactions, not only state action. (similarity 0.82)
• The radicalized Muslim threat narrative is a fear instrument rather than a safety measure (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is a largely unwarranted social anxiety about Islam and Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Perceiving Muslims as disloyal shifts the policy frame from anti-discrimination to securitization. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.75)
• Fear of state detention and deportation corrodes Muslim Americans’ sense of citizenship #expands (0.70)
• Anti-mosque sentiment reflects anxiety about Muslim bodies being physically close to whites #expands (0.60)
• Structural Islamophobia and structural racism share embedded institutional stereotypes #corroborates (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 130
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice #complicates (0.40)