Surveillance technologies shuttle unchanged between foreign warzones and domestic Muslim communities

Evidence

This was how surveillance worked back home, in American cities and towns with concentrated Muslim populations. War on Terror surveillance, whether at home or far from it, was the same beast and left the same footprint. Wajir, Kenya, like Los Angeles or Detroit, was another theater of the War on Terror’s “field of fight,” where the new “world war” pursued terrorist boogeymen and -women near and far. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 124 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The same surveillance technology and logic operate at home and abroad — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 541; Counterterrorism surveillance technology crosses the domestic-foreign divide; US War on Terror surveillance operates identically abroad and at home (+3 more)

Broader Connections