The federal state actively recruits Muslims and social workers to self-police for extremism

Evidence

The DHS website outlines the scope of the program, which includes understanding violent extremism, supporting communities that might be vulnerable to extremist ideologies, helping these communities to resist recruitment, and assisting local law enforcement in their efforts to prevent another terrorist attack in the United States. This program encourages Muslim Americans to surveil members of their own communities who may appear suspicious and report them to the government. Obama encouraged Muslim Americans to participate in self-policing after two young Muslim men were arrested in California for conspiring to help the Islamic State (Reid 2015). … The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) in Massachusetts recently agreed to collaborate with the CVE by encouraging health and social service workers to profile their clients for “radicalization” and “extremism.” … According to Germain, who is now a fellow for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, right-wing antigovernment groups commit the majority of politically motivated violent acts in the United States, not Muslims: “Focusing almost exclusively on Muslims, he added, ‘reinforces the false perception that extremist violence is primarily a Muslim problem when the facts show that is not true’” (Bender 2015). — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 62

Categorization

• XREF: This is the state-surveillance + self-surveillance mechanism that replaces the Global Racial Enemy slot in the reader’s map, connecting directly to Beydoun et al. (COINTELPRO-style domestic policing). — connects to: The CVE program uniquely recruits Muslims as security-state agents.
• SEED: Angle: how ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ operationalizes a racialized religion by deputizing its own members — a domestic parallel to COINTELPRO surveillance.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: whether EOHHS-style client profiling by health/social workers has produced documented harms in Massachusetts.