State profiling legitimizes citizens reporting Muslims for speaking Arabic or wearing hijab

Evidence

It is no surprise, then, that passengers feel justified in reporting Muslims as suspicious to flight attendants on airplanes; they take their cues from the state. When the state participates in racially profiling passengers based on a religious identity in a public fashion, citizens feel justified in reporting their fellow passengers as suspicious for doing things like speaking Arabic or wearing the hijab when flying. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 151

Categorization

• XREF: The state-citizen feedback loop explains the six imams and Irum Abbasi incidents in the chapter opening — private surveillance copying state cues.