The state suppresses Muslim dissent regardless of actual security threat level

Evidence

Despite the great differences between the 1960s and the post-9/11 era, there is one critical similarity: Expressions of Islam that make radical critiques of the United States will be suppressed, even if they do not pose a direct security threat to the nation-state. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 415

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s project framing: this directly relocates the question from ‘them’ (Muslims) to the frightened state apparatus — ‘us’. — connects to: Anti-terror measures in West Germany extended to suppress legal opposition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2755; Anti-Muslim racism is systemic, not fringe, and requires dismantling the national security state — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 766