The FBI constructed a good-bad Islam binary to police racial politics

Evidence

Bush took pains in the address to point out that he was not referring to all or even most Muslims but rather to a radical minority within Islam so intoxicated with hatred that they have twisted their religion into a tool for terror. However, in doing so, he constructed a binary of “good Muslim” and “bad Muslim” that eventually paved the way for a political Islamophobia in which any Muslim who is not with “us” becomes “our” enemy. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 262 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The FBI designated orthodoxy by political loyalty rather than theology — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 235; The FBI conflated Black Muslim anti-racism with sedition and imperialism critique — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 234; The FBI surveilled black Muslims as seditious threats more than white Arab immigrants (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• The FBI’s 1955 report prefigured the good-versus-bad Muslim split by ethnicity #corroborates (0.95)
• The good Muslim bad Muslim binary paved the way for political Islamophobia #corroborates (0.92) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 262