Terrorist profiling substitutes for solid evidence in security hearings

Evidence

In each of the security-certificate cases considered here, the profiling of the terrorist as a person with the stain of Islamic extremist ideology and his immediate eviction from political community stands in place of solid evidence, knitting together strands of the evidence into a story of the monster terrorist. In the absence of law, an absence indicated by the low threshold of proof that operates throughout the security-certificate hearing and the difficulty of assessing the merits of the available evidence, the profile must do most of the work to convince us that the men are a profound and self-evident threat. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 126 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Profiling collapses the evidence of a link into the proof that the link exists; In security hearings the terrorist profile replaces solid legal evidence — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 126; Terrorism evidence against suspects rests on vague profile categories — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 134 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• In security hearings the terrorist profile replaces solid legal evidence #corroborates (0.99) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 126