The War on Terror recycled COINTELPRO-era racial policing tactics against Muslims

Evidence

The bombings of 9/11 were a watershed moment. While it may not have resulted in a complete rupture from the time before, this event was the single most important disruption of the history of Muslims in the United States. The attack brought down the full force of state repression and its police powers against Muslims in the name of national security, now rendered “homeland security.” The same racial strategies used against the Black and Latinx communities during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s and the War on Drugs were used against Muslims in the new War on Terror. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 263

Categorization

• XREF: This institutional surveillance lineage connects the reader’s subordinate-group literature thread: same COINTELPRO machinery that policed Black activists now retargeted at Muslims, echoing book ch4’s claim that racecraft tools get retargeted. — connects to: Operation Boulder redeployed COINTELPRO counterinsurgency methods to racialize Arab Americans — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 249; COINTELPRO surveillance methods were redeployed to racialize Arab Americans as terrorists — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 249; The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29 (+15 more)
• SEED: Seed for the MOC essay: if the same coercive machinery applies across groups but only some achieve identity inversion, that isolates the missing variable — shared homeland/arrival narrative — in American Islam’s case.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #corroborates (0.92) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.90)
• The War on Terror surveilled and classified Muslims into state-approved or suspect categories #corroborates (0.88) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 261
• Anti-terror discourse functions to police transnational migration by racializing Muslims #corroborates (0.86) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 336
• The War on Terror created deportable subjects racialized as illegal and criminal #corroborates (0.85) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 647
• The War on Terror globally embedded a racialized terrorist stereotype of Muslims #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1120
• War on Terror homogenized Muslims the way earlier eras homogenized Native Americans and Africans #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 232
• The American War on Terror exported a policing template states worldwide used against Muslims #expands (0.82)
• The Muslim-terrorism conflation distanced white wars and white terror from scrutiny #expands (0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 936
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.80)
• The War on Terror fragmented into connected systems of global Muslim subordination #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 73
• Claiming surveillance without evidence diminishes real COINTELPRO harm. #contradicts (0.78) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 870