Surveillance ensnared a young Muslim with no criminal record through an informant.

Evidence

Ahmed had no idea he was a suspect until one Saturday morning when two police officers, who had been carefully observing him and his social media for weeks, stopped over at his family’s home to question him. The officers were acting with the help of an informant, a school acquaintance who kept tabs on Ahmed in exchange for reduced probation time for a crime he had committed. Ahmed had done no wrong, he had no prior convictions, no criminal record at all, and yet he was deemed a subject of interest—a prospective radical on account of his nationality, neighborhood, and especially, his spiritual evolution from secular to devout Muslim. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 362

Categorization

• XREF: The informant-for-reduced-sentence mechanism echoes Selod’s surveillance findings and the broader carceral-surveillance literature Beydoun engages. — connects to: A citizen can trigger state surveillance of a Muslim simply by reporting them — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 341; Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 362

Broader Connections

• A citizen can trigger state surveillance of a Muslim simply by reporting them #expands (0.70) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 341
• Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance #corroborates (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586