The state’s terrorist image is constructed as Muslim and male.

Evidence

What these encounters reveal is that private citizens have the power to report Muslims to the FBI just because they are Muslim. Muslim men are more likely to be suspected and targeted because the state has constructed the image of the terrorist as Muslim and male, but on occasion, women who wear the hijab can also be caught up in this type of surveillance. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 343

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the state-constructed image of the terrorist as Muslim-and-male, which is the mechanism linking religious identity to racialized suspicion.
• ADDENDUM: This notion of a state-constructed suspect image parallels the class/identity signaling of moral panics over dress in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — in both, an imagined figure carries displaced social anxieties.