Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims

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. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern surveillance is structured by anti-Blackness — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2569; Airport profiling collapses religious identity and racial appearance into a single target — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 65; Suspicion of Muslims is based on association rather than evidence (+58 more)

Related

• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity (similarity 0.96)
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims (similarity 0.94)
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects (similarity 0.93)
• State surveillance jointly documents citizens and is justified by racialized religious identity (similarity 0.92)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.88)
• The surveillance industry needs racialized Muslim bodies to justify its funding (similarity 0.87)
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. (similarity 0.87)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias (similarity 0.87)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.87)
• The state authorizes citizens to racially profile Muslims under national security (similarity 0.86)
• The surveillance industry depends on racialized Muslim bodies to stay funded (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance itself racializes target groups into a suspicious race (similarity 0.86)
• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans (similarity 0.86)
• Racialized religious signifiers trigger hostile surveillance interactions with state and citizens (similarity 0.86)
• State surveillance policies intensify rather than suppress Muslim religious identity (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.75)
• The surveillance industry needs racialized Muslim bodies to justify its funding #expands (0.70)
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims #exemplifies (0.65) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474