Terrorist designations function as tools to criminalize Muslim civic participation.

Evidence

The designation would have a chilling effect on Arab and Muslim civic life and society,” said Abed Ayoub, legal director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). “This is absolutely a political move on the part of the Trump administration. The designation is just one part of the Administration’s agenda aimed at criminalizing Islam and Muslim Americans.” — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 665

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the designation-power dynamics analyzed in the machine and present-wound clusters. — 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; Constitutional violations are deemed acceptable when targeting Islam or Muslims. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 310; Designating the Muslim Brotherhood would hand terrorists a recruiting propaganda tool. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 647 (+17 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 665

Related

• Anti-terror policing may have created a new offense of political protest while Muslim. (similarity 0.85)
• Designating the Muslim Brotherhood would hand terrorists a recruiting propaganda tool. (similarity 0.82)
• The Muslim Brotherhood designation push aimed at controlling American Muslims rather than fighting terrorism. (similarity 0.82)
• The state authorizes citizens to racially profile Muslims under national security (similarity 0.82)
• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters (similarity 0.81)
• The Muslim Brotherhood designation would threaten constitutional rights of US Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
• Even watchlisted Muslims face additional appearance-based profiling (similarity 0.81)
• Airport surveillance publicly signals to the population that Muslims are potential terrorists (similarity 0.80)
• Racial profiling extends to religious signifiers like Muslim names and clothing. (similarity 0.79)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity (similarity 0.79)
• NYPD’s radicalization model makes Muslim identity itself a predictor of terrorism (similarity 0.79)
• Terrorism and extremism are treated as exclusive to Islam (similarity 0.79)
• Constitutional violations are deemed acceptable when targeting Islam or Muslims. (similarity 0.79)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.78)
• Muslim identity is criminalized by national security policies (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise #expands (0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282
• State-sponsored Islamophobia enforces the presumption linking Muslims to terrorism. #corroborates (0.75)
• Routine Muslim religious practice is legally treated as evidence of terrorist predisposition #expands (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 463
• Each terrorist attack resets Muslims into heightened suspicion and surveillance #expands (0.65) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 666
• The state authorizes citizens to racially profile Muslims under national security #corroborates (0.65) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 424
• Racial profiling extends to religious signifiers like Muslim names and clothing. #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 227
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #expands (0.60)
• Airport surveillance publicly signals to the population that Muslims are potential terrorists #exemplifies (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 338
• The government actively recruits Muslim Americans to police their own communities for extremism. #expands (0.50)