The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists.

Evidence

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Muslims are racialized via a differential allocation of rewards when their bodies are unfairly criminalized rather than protected by the state. In other words, their surveillance casts them as threats as opposed to citizens worthy of state protection. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 209 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Muslims are presumed predisposed to terrorism, making entrapment defenses fail. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 570; Preemptive FBI strategy assumed Muslims were guilty and induced latent terrorist tendencies. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 568; Anti-terror policing may have created a new offense of political protest while Muslim. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 583 (+51 more)

Related

• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.93)
• Socioeconomic status does not protect Muslims from racialization during war (similarity 0.90)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. (similarity 0.88)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.87)
• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters (similarity 0.87)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.86)
• The War on Terror recycled COINTELPRO-era racial policing tactics against Muslims (similarity 0.86)
• The War on Terror racializes all Muslims as a boundless enemy to justify war (similarity 0.86)
• The War on Terror shifted Muslim Americans down the racial hierarchy away from whiteness (similarity 0.86)
• The War on Terror legitimizes expanded police repression at home (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias (similarity 0.84)
• US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad. (similarity 0.84)
• Mass surveillance based on racial stereotypes weakens democracy without preventing terrorism. (similarity 0.84)
• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans (similarity 0.84)
• War on Terror oppression of Muslims parallels War on Drugs targeting of African Americans (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #corroborates (0.95) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #corroborates (0.90)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. #corroborates (0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 209
• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters #expands (0.70)
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #expands (0.70)
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims #expands (0.65)
• The War on Terror weaponizes an invented Orientalist past to victimize Muslims today #expands (0.60)
• Racial battle fatigue extends to Muslims stressed by surveillance racialization #expands (0.60)
• War on Terror oppression of Muslims parallels War on Drugs targeting of African Americans #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 631
• War on Terror rhetoric revived vocabulary from America’s earlier race-based persecutions. #expands (0.55)
• Muslims move down the racial hierarchy rather than becoming a new race #qualifies (0.50)
• Socioeconomic status does not protect Muslims from racialization during war #expands (0.50)