The US borrowed its domestic counter-radicalization program from the UK

Evidence

Virtually everything that I saw signaled to me that Wajir was a world away from Washington. Its red earth clashed with the gray urban concrete of the District of Columbia, and the slowly plodding men and headscarved women had a distinctly different look and rhythm than the suits rushing about the American capital. Wajir was not Washington, until the latter descended on it in the form of the two agents seated next to us. In the words of Malcolm X, Plymouth Rock landed on them. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 143 (#expands, via linked claim)

Matar argues that the construction of Muslims in this period drew not from the actual encounter with Muslims but with the Native Americans. Whereas Britain had succeeded in dominating Native Americans, they were unable to do the same with Muslims. Thus, they “borrowed constructions of alterity and demonization from their encounter with the American Indians” and applied them to Muslims. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 111 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Britain borrowed demonization of Native Americans and applied it to Muslims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 111; American counterterrorism doctrine traveled to distant Muslim regions as empire — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 143

Broader Connections

• American counterterrorism doctrine traveled to distant Muslim regions as empire #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 143
• Britain borrowed demonization of Native Americans and applied it to Muslims #complicates (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 111