The national security state has racialized Muslims into a category vulnerable to premature death.

Evidence

The war on terror rages on, exposing millions more to what prison abolitionist scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore has called a “vulnerability to premature death.” While Gilmore is referring to the black and brown people ravaged by the carceral state, we might fruitfully extend this aspect of racism to the ways in which Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians have been targeted by the national security state and turned into a dangerous “race.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 52

Categorization

• DEFINE: Extends Gilmore’s ‘vulnerability to premature death’ — a definition of racism-as-premature-death — to the national security state’s targeting of Muslims.
• XREF: Connects to prison abolition literature and the carceral state scholarship of Ruth Wilson Gilmore. — connects to: The state authorizes citizens to racially profile Muslims under national security — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 424; Muslim racialization crosses party lines as both administrations national-security state grew — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 1004; State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies (+16 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 52

Broader Connections

• Bombing and sanctions constitute racialized vulnerability to premature death #exemplifies (0.92) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 87
• Racism operates as production of group vulnerability to premature death #expands (0.92)
• The state authorizes citizens to racially profile Muslims under national security #expands (0.90) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 424
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #expands (0.90)
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #corroborates (0.90)
• Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated. #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 141
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.90)
• Anti-Muslim racism is systemic, not fringe, and requires dismantling the national security state #expands (0.88) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 766
• Muslim identity is criminalized by national security policies #expands (0.87) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 874
• National security law legally overrides protections against racial profiling of Muslims #expands (0.86) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 552
• Muslim racialization crosses party lines as both administrations national-security state grew #expands (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1004
• State-fostered fear racializes Muslim bodies and strips Muslim Americans of American identity #corroborates (0.85) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 33
• Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans. #expands (0.85)
• Muslims are racialized by reframing their religion as a violent ideology. #expands (0.84)
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.82)