Surveillance programs disrupted Muslim communities without catching any terrorists

Evidence

Uzma Jamil notes that NSEERS “did not net any terrorist ‘sleeper cells,’ but did disrupt families, communities and neighbourhoods, while cementing the public’s negative perceptions of Muslims as both collectively guilty and threatening” (“Reading Power: Muslims and War on Terror Discourse,” Islamophobia Studies Journal 2, no. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 763

Categorization

• XREF: Gives material grounding for reading Changez’s treatment in The Reluctant Fundamentalist as documentation, not just paranoia — the program really did produce collective guilt without results.
• CANDY: A crisp, quotable data point: a counterterror program netted zero sleeper cells yet damaged communities and cemented Muslim guilt.