Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens.

Evidence

Muslims are racialized via a differential allocation of rewards when their bodies are unfairly criminalized rather than protected by the state. In other words, their surveillance casts them as threats as opposed to citizens worthy of state protection. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 209

Muslims are racialized via a differential allocation of rewards when their bodies are unfairly criminalized rather than protected by the state. In other words, their surveillance casts them as threats as opposed to citizens worthy of state protection. Surveillance intersects with and depends on both religious signifiers and gender in this process of racialization. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 151

Categorization

• DEFINE: Selod’s operational definition of racialization: differential allocation of rewards, where criminalization replaces state protection.
• XREF: Answers the reader’s core question about how a faith gets racialized — through differential treatment by the state. — connects to: Anti-terror policing may have created a new offense of political protest while Muslim. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 583; Fear of black Muslims uniting with colonized peoples drove FBI surveillance.; Muslim faith practice that is benign for others marks young black men as threats. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 359 (+14 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 209; Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 151
• recurring: this claim recurs 5 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #corroborates (0.90)
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims #corroborates (0.85)
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.60)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship #complicates (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658
• Racialized religious signifiers trigger hostile surveillance interactions with state and citizens #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 650
• The hijab rather than skin tone triggers racializing surveillance of Muslim women #exemplifies (0.55) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 292
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity #expands (0.50)