Terror threats are socially constructed to match pre-existing terrorist profiles

Evidence

The circulation of the alert unwittingly revealed a system predicated on the social construction of threats to match terrorist profiles, the targets of which are not ambiguous but, for the purposes of public consumption, may be presented as such. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 273

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to moral panic theory (Cohen) already in the reader’s library, showing how threat construction works in the security domain. — connects to: Terror is the performativity system’s enforcement by threatening exclusion from the language game — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 441
• DEFINE: Illustrates the concept of socially constructed threats where targets are predetermined but presented as ambiguous.