The War on Terror legitimizes expanded police repression at home

Evidence

These restrictions raise an important question, one articulated by scholar Liz Fekete: “Are we seeing a new form of religious profiling? A new offence: ‘Demonstrating for Palestine while Muslim’?” — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 583 (#expands, via linked claim)

In the decade after 9/11, the approach to law and order in the United States changed drastically with surveillance being a necessary and supported tactic in a society hyperconcerned with preventing another terrorist attack. Surveillance is the observation and monitoring of behaviors and actions that are deemed suspicious. The domestic and international War on Terror legitimizes the political and economic need for increased surveillance, resulting in the corporatization and federalization of surveillance. In other words, surveillance has become big business in the United States, where companies profit from surveillance technologies and tools, such as maintaining databases of information on the general public and then selling them to the government for purposes of security. A surveillance society can only survive as long as there is a need to monitor and observe bodies that threaten security. The War on Terror created conditions where Muslim bodies are racialized, justifying the need for their surveillance. But surveillance does not impact Muslim men and women in the same way; rather, surveillance is gendered, highlighting how racialization is also gendered. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Militarized manhunting combines warfare and policing into a new state violence — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 164; War on terror justice neutralizes the rule of law in the name of security; Countering Violent Extremism deputized local police as national security officers — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 66 (+19 more)

Related

• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (similarity 0.86)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.85)
• US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad. (similarity 0.85)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-terror policing may have created a new offense of political protest while Muslim. (similarity 0.83)
• The War on Terror recycled COINTELPRO-era racial policing tactics against Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.81)
• War on Terror tactics used abroad were reimported to police domestic Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias (similarity 0.80)
• Socioeconomic status does not protect Muslims from racialization during war (similarity 0.80)
• Civil-liberties-versus-security framing normalizes sacrificing minority rights. (similarity 0.80)
• War on Terror oppression of Muslims parallels War on Drugs targeting of African Americans (similarity 0.80)
• War on Terror security measures enable greater domestic police repression against minorities (similarity 0.79)
• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters (similarity 0.79)
• The War on Terror racializes all Muslims as a boundless enemy to justify war (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #expands (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• Anti-terror policing may have created a new offense of political protest while Muslim. #expands (0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 583
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.65)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #expands (0.60)
• The global War on Terror legitimized China’s Han supremacist crackdown on Uyghurs #expands (0.60)
• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims #expands (0.60)
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #expands (0.60)
• Anti-black racism and Islamophobia fuse to intensify policing of black Muslims. #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 453
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain #expands (0.55)
• War on Terror oppression of Muslims parallels War on Drugs targeting of African Americans #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 631
• US War on Terror surveillance operates identically abroad and at home #expands (0.50)
• US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad. #expands (0.50)
• Domestic war on terror functions as a manufactured spectacle of fear rather than safety #qualifies (0.40) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 484
• Blind terrorism provokes blind repression, polarizing and hardening a conflict #complicates (0.35)