State surveillance treated militant Islam as more threatening than non-violent Christianity

Evidence

While Martin Luther King, Jr. was also surveilled, his avowed non-violence and mainstream Christianity was much easier to understand and easier for many whites to support. As Malcolm X pointed out, Islam was not a religion that advocated turning the other cheek, a demand for forbearance and forgiveness that even now is an expected response to racial violence. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Choudhury’s broader argument that Islam is raced partly through state-security associations (ch3 saw state agencies linking Islam to radicalism), echoing Choudhury’s earlier ch on anticolonial movements and to the Fields’ racecraft concept. — connects to: The Cold War’s end positioned Islam as communism’s replacement global threat — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 240; Black Islam’s theology refused non-violence and made equality a prerequisite for reconciliation — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 194; State surveillance policies intensify rather than suppress Muslim religious identity — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 105 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Orthodox Muslim practice and dissenting politics trigger government surveillance red flags #corroborates (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 948
• State surveillance policies intensify rather than suppress Muslim religious identity #qualifies (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 105
• Religious practices get reframed as security threats justifying citizen surveillance #corroborates (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 273
• State surveillance targets religious identity rather than class or political loyalty #corroborates (0.80)
• The framing of mosques as terror nest legitimated surveillance of religious practice #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 818
• State surveillance escalates with how visibly Muslim a person is #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 380
• Blanket accusations of Muslims justify state surveillance by identity #corroborates (0.80)
• Religious explanations of terrorist violence serve to expand state surveillance powers. #expands (0.75) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 265
• Religiosity plus foreign-policy dissent makes Muslims prime targets for state repression #corroborates (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 81
• State surveillance policies push Muslims to strengthen a targeted identity #qualifies (0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 137
• Official Islamophobia is manufactured by state surveillance rather than arising from public ignorance #expands (0.70) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 412