State surveillance and private Islamophobia propaganda reinforce each other into systemic racism.

Evidence

The deployment of state power to surveil, investigate, prosecute, and deport immigrant Muslims works in concert with an influential and well-funded Islamophobia industry to produce systemic anti-Muslim racism. Aggressive propaganda campaigns defaming Islam, Muslim leaders, and Muslim organizations enable selective, racialized national security enforcement to occur with negligible public opposition. Indeed, it was not until Trump’s 2017 Muslim Ban that a critical mass of Americans realized the extent to which Islamophobia had infected the political system at the highest levels. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 959

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that an enormous policy shift was required before the public noticed a pre-existing problem parallels the ‘slow boiling frog’ dynamic in the Morisco chapters of this same book.
• SEED: Angle: how much state repression a democracy tolerates before a ‘critical mass’ notices — a comparative piece across the Muslim Ban, Japanese internment, and post-9/11 surveillance.