The FBI secretly placed tracking devices on cars of ordinary young American Muslims

Evidence

In 2010, a twenty-year-old California college student named Yasir Afifi took his car to get an oil change. While the car was being serviced, Mr. Afifi noticed a strange black box attached to the car’s underbody. Two days later, as he left his apartment complex, he was approached by a group of FBI agents who asked where he had put their tracking device which they had planted on his car. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 768

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Cheney-era warrantless surveillance disclosures and the farcical domestic spying cases. — connects to: Preemptive FBI strategy assumed Muslims were guilty and induced latent terrorist tendencies. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 568; The FBI treated black Islam as a political sign regardless of actual loyalty; Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 768

Related

• Preemptive FBI strategy assumed Muslims were guilty and induced latent terrorist tendencies. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586
• FBI surveillance drives Muslim congregations to self-police and Americanize #expands (0.70)
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship #expands (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104
• Surveillance leads Muslims to police their own actions and dress #expands (0.60)
• The 2011 Libya war triggered FBI interviews of Libyan US residents domestically #exemplifies (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 491
• The USA PATRIOT Act produced the surveillance society that made Muslim bodies constantly monitored #expands (0.50)