The federal government actively manufactured hatred of and between black Muslims

Evidence

Though government interference in the practice of Islamic religion was limited by US law during World War II, new legal and extralegal techniques were used to discredit the practice of Islam among black Americans after World War II. Restricting the religious freedoms of Muslims, manipulating mainstream media, stoking violent conflict among African American organizations, and even trying to break up marriages, the Department of Justice and the FBI reached into the heart of US society to create hatred of and between Muslim Americans. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 399

Categorization

• SEED: The state manufactured hatred between target communities — a potent case for an essay on how governments engineer division under anti-subversion cover.
• XREF: Directly serves the guiding question of relocating the problem from ‘them’ to ‘us’ — fear is enacted by state apparatus, not by Muslims.