The US government manufactured Islamophobia as a disciplinary technique against black political activism

Evidence

This ongoing dialogue between the state and its polity regarding Muslims by way of law, official rhetoric, and war-on-terror policy is central to this book’s framing of Islamophobia. Beyond defining Islamophobia as merely irrational fear or hatred held by a caricatured bloc or demographic, or as deviant violence committed by individual actors, this book’s definition is complex, multidimensional, and anchored in law and government policy. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83 (#expands, via linked claim)

The state’s rubber-stamping of widely held stereotypes of Islam and Muslims, through the enactment of surveillance programs, religious and racial profiling, restrictive immigration policies, and the war-on-terror campaign, is the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia. This exchange—by which citizens absorb the suspicion and demonization the state assigns to Muslims by way of (structural Islamophobic) law or state action—is an ongoing dialectic that links state policy to hate and violence unleashed by private citizens. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Fear of Black organizing drove US laws barring Black mail carriers until 1865; Washington sabotaged rival Black political movements through spies and press control; State repression, not just culture, sustained American Islamophobia — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 344 (+26 more)

Related

• Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias (similarity 0.84)
• State repression, not just culture, sustained American Islamophobia (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia and anti-black racism share a kindred source and common targets. (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-black racism and Islamophobia fuse to intensify policing of black Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
• The federal government actively manufactured hatred of and between black Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia (similarity 0.81)
• The state exploits public insecurity to legitimize Islamophobia. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric (similarity 0.80)
• Suppressing critical Muslim voices is a decades-old component of US statecraft. (similarity 0.80)
• Reducing Islamophobia to private bigotry ignores state-enforced discrimination (similarity 0.79)
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies (similarity 0.79)
• Institutions exploit black Muslims through erasure, demonization, and delegitimization (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia is a state-authorized system, not merely private prejudice (similarity 0.79)
• Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias #expands (0.65)
• Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83
• State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136
• Anti-Palestinian racism historically produced Islamophobia in the United States #expands (0.55) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 21
• Black American Muslims suffer compounded vulnerability from converging anti-Black racism and Islamophobia #complicates (0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460
• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #expands (0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• Islamophobia and anti-black racism share a kindred source and common targets. #expands (0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 418
• Islamophobia is political rather than religious and must be fought politically #expands (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 576
• Institutions exploit black Muslims through erasure, demonization, and delegitimization #complicates (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 437
• Islamophobia has material and political causes beyond ignorance or xenophobia #expands (0.50) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 706
• Anti-black racism and Islamophobia fuse to intensify policing of black Muslims. #complicates (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 453
• Anti-black racism within Muslim American communities remains unaddressed #expands (0.45) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 436