TSA surveillance targets citizens regardless of religiosity, profession, or travel habits

Evidence

Muslim men who were on the list ranged in age and profession: some were college students, and others were professionals specializing in fields from advertising to law. The majority of these men were born in the United States and varied in their religiosity. Only a few of the participants were active in Muslim organizations. Nothing about their flying habits indicated suspicious behavior—they flew on round-trip tickets purchased with credit cards. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 171

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘nothing about their flying habits indicated suspicious behavior’ line directly evidences how the racialization operates independently of behavior — relevant to the reader’s religion-vs-race distinction question.
• QUESTION: This makes vivid that surveillance attaches to a racialized category, not to any conduct — worth chasing how Selod separates this from ordinary security profiling.