Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority

Evidence

In the decade after 9/11, the approach to law and order in the United States changed drastically with surveillance being a necessary and supported tactic in a society hyperconcerned with preventing another terrorist attack. Surveillance is the observation and monitoring of behaviors and actions that are deemed suspicious. The domestic and international War on Terror legitimizes the political and economic need for increased surveillance, resulting in the corporatization and federalization of surveillance. In other words, surveillance has become big business in the United States, where companies profit from surveillance technologies and tools, such as maintaining databases of information on the general public and then selling them to the government for purposes of security. A surveillance society can only survive as long as there is a need to monitor and observe bodies that threaten security. The War on Terror created conditions where Muslim bodies are racialized, justifying the need for their surveillance. But surveillance does not impact Muslim men and women in the same way; rather, surveillance is gendered, highlighting how racialization is also gendered. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29 (#expands, via linked claim)

The American government has also played another role in producing the Muslim first identity by categorizing all Muslims indiscriminately through its policies. For example, state policies like the National Security Entry-­Exit Registration System (NSEERS), which required Muslim men to register with the state, and Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban have both targeted Muslims arbitrarily. South Asians and Arabs living in the United States who identify as Muslim are seen as potential threats to the state. While some may respond by downplaying their religious identity, many react by strengthening an identity that is under attack. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 137 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects; The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474; Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims (+13 more)

Related

• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.92)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity (similarity 0.89)
• State surveillance policies push Muslims to strengthen a targeted identity (similarity 0.89)
• US surveillance systematically targets select bodies using racial cues (similarity 0.88)
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims (similarity 0.88)
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects (similarity 0.87)
• State surveillance policies intensify rather than suppress Muslim religious identity (similarity 0.87)
• FBI surveillance drives Muslim congregations to self-police and Americanize (similarity 0.86)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (similarity 0.86)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• The surveillance industry needs racialized Muslim bodies to justify its funding (similarity 0.86)
• Mass state surveillance laws target white citizens and Muslims with unequal public scrutiny (similarity 0.86)
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims (similarity 0.85)
• The surveillance industry depends on racialized Muslim bodies to stay funded (similarity 0.85)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.70)
• State surveillance policies push Muslims to strengthen a targeted identity #complicates (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 137
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #expands (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims #exemplifies (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims #expands (0.60)
• The surveillance industry depends on racialized Muslim bodies to stay funded #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 671
• The surveillance industry needs racialized Muslim bodies to justify its funding #expands (0.60)
• US surveillance systematically targets select bodies using racial cues #corroborates (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 94
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity #expands (0.60)
• Racialized religious signifiers trigger hostile surveillance interactions with state and citizens #exemplifies (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 650
• Covert framing of Muslim surveillance as anti-terrorism suppressed public protest #expands (0.50)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias #complicates (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 487
• Surveillance targets a Muslim name, not religious belief, making it racial discrimination #qualifies (0.50)