State surveillance jointly documents citizens and is justified by racialized religious identity

Evidence

The Department of Homeland Security’s Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI) is a collaborative project where federal, state, local, and tribal agencies gather information on suspicious behaviors that could be related to terrorism. In the case of post-9/11 America, this distrust is rooted in xenophobic attitudes toward Islam and Muslims. Muslim Americans are treated differently than the rest of the population because they are categorized as potential terrorists and threats to Western values due to their religious identity. This justification of their surveillance is a part of their racialization. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 344

Categorization

• XREF: Direct connect to Beydoun and the reader’s Global Racial Enemy slot — the mechanism of how a faith gets treated as a race, which the reader explicitly wants. — connects to: Mass state surveillance laws target white citizens and Muslims with unequal public scrutiny — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 570
• QUESTION: The passage asserts surveillance is ‘a part of their racialization’ but Selod hasn’t yet defined how religion converts to race here — worth tracking how she theorizes this in the definitional sections.