The state rewards apolitical Islam while suppressing peaceful resistance to US foreign policy
Evidence
As in the past, the FBI and the Justice Departmentāand now the Treasury Department, Homeland Security, and the National Security Administration, among other agenciesāseek to reward those versions of Islam that are apolitical and innocuous to US interests while also suppressing even peaceful Islamic resistance to US foreign policy. The USA PATRIOT Act, passed in October 2001, authorized the resurrection of COINTELPRO techniques that had been killed, at least officially, in the post-Watergate era. ā Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy ofā¦, 417
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- QUESTION: The parallel between COINTELPROās resurrection and current surveillance invites tracking how permissive āemergencyā laws get exercised over time.