State-sponsored violence channels a resentful hatred of living bodies

Evidence

Was Hicks’s fear and hatred of Islam irrational, or was it fueled by the stereotypes of the faith and its followers he regularly heard on the radio and watched on television, and, therefore, rational? Furthermore, was he a deviant actor whose horrific acts were the result of his own motives alone? Or was Hicks collaborating in the broader national project of policing, prosecuting, and punishing Muslims—the formal mission of the war on terror, that ambiguous and unconventional war authorized by counterterror laws like the USA PATRIOT Act, Countering Violent Extremism, and, two years after the triple murder, the Muslim ban enacted by President Trump? — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The oppressed’s hatred of life fuels recurring puritanical violence; Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101; Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance #corroborates (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101
• Civility veils rather than ends sanctioned state violence #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 250
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #expands (0.80)
• Modern states treat abstract humanity as sacred but subject actual persons to institutional violence #corroborates (0.80)
• State denunciation of hate crimes obscures state complicity in producing those harms #corroborates (0.78) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 33
• Islamophobia traps Muslims between state-sponsored and popular violence #expands (0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 61
• Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance #expands (0.75)
• State acknowledgment of carceral violence normalizes it rather than undoing it #expands (0.75) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 817
• Violent hatred need not spring from the victim’s power and abuse #complicates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 66
• State violence falls along a spectrum from official to semiofficial to unofficial #expands (0.75)
• Intense hatred of foes destroys empathy that would restrain killing #complicates (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2217
• All human achievement depends on a repressed hatred of the mortal body #expands (0.72)