The USA PATRIOT Act produced the surveillance society that made Muslim bodies constantly monitored

Evidence

The interviews also revealed that South Asian and Arab men and women, regardless of their status as Americans, were surveilled by both the state and their fellow citizens because of their religious identity. South Asian and Arab Muslim Americans had similar experiences to one another because of the way their religious identity was interpreted. Their ethnicity as South Asian or Arab intersected with their Muslim identity and gender in salient ways that impacted social interactions in their everyday lives because it had made them a target for surveillance. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104 (#expands, via linked claim)

Today, CVE policing ranks among the most destructive forms of structural Islamophobia. Its strategy and enforcement, while framed in a facially neutral fashion, is “cloaked in expertise about the process by which Muslims become terrorists.” Individuals who maximize their Muslim identity, or “Muslimness,” by freely expressing their faith and exercising their First Amendment rights, expose themselves to being profiled by the state as refusing to assimilate, as religiously conservative, as extreme or subversive, to name just some of the “bad Muslim” tropes that open the door to CVE suspicion. In short, the more Muslim one is, the more likely one will be pegged as a subject of CVE interest. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 380 (#expands, via linked claim)

This act of denying Muslims their American identity is a racializing act and is accomplished through hypersurveillance. The belief that to be American is to be white is resurfacing as Muslims are made to feel they are incapable of being loyal to America because their bodies are equated with terror and their values are somehow antithetical to Western or American ones. In many ways, it feels as if America is revisiting its past: the early twentieth century, when South Asian men desperately fought for naturalization were denied it because their religious identity situated them as incapable of sharing Western values. The act of racialized surveillance is also an act that strips one of citizenship. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The USA PATRIOT Act expanded wiretap and indefinite detention powers without prior cause. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 564; The Patriot Act spatially policed the domestic public sphere; The FBI secretly placed tracking devices on cars of ordinary young American Muslims — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 768 (+18 more)

Related

• FBI surveillance drives Muslim congregations to self-police and Americanize (similarity 0.89)
• No US religious community endures such simultaneous embrace and surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship (similarity 0.86)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship (similarity 0.86)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.85)
• State surveillance policies push Muslims to strengthen a targeted identity (similarity 0.85)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.84)
• State surveillance escalates with how visibly Muslim a person is (similarity 0.84)
• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans (similarity 0.84)
• US surveillance systematically targets select bodies using racial cues (similarity 0.84)
• Surveillance makes Muslim men strategically perform loyalty to manage others’ suspicions (similarity 0.84)
• Even high-ranking Muslim American officials were surveilled without criminal cause (similarity 0.84)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity (similarity 0.84)
• The government actively recruits Muslim Americans to police their own communities for extremism. (similarity 0.83)
• Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship #expands (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104
• State surveillance escalates with how visibly Muslim a person is #expands (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 380
• FBI surveillance drives Muslim congregations to self-police and Americanize #expands (0.60)
• Surveillance leads Muslims to police their own actions and dress #expands (0.60)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• The surveillance gaze denies Muslim Americans the psychological privileges of citizenship #expands (0.60)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims #expands (0.60)
• Even Muslims who cooperated with the FBI were placed under surveillance #expands (0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 586
• Surveillance causes Muslims to discipline their own behavior preemptively #expands (0.55)
• Airport surveillance publicly signals to the population that Muslims are potential terrorists #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 338
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity #expands (0.55)
• Blanket accusations of Muslims justify state surveillance by identity #expands (0.55)
• Muslim surveillance thrived under the Obama administration #expands (0.50)
• A citizen can trigger state surveillance of a Muslim simply by reporting them #expands (0.50) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 341