US agencies reward apolitical Islam while suppressing peaceful resistance

Evidence

As in the past, the FBI and the Justice Department—and now the Treasury Department, Homeland Security, and the National Security Administration, among other agencies—seek to reward those versions of Islam that are apolitical and innocuous to US interests while also suppressing even peaceful Islamic resistance to US foreign policy. The USA PATRIOT Act, passed in October 2001, authorized the resurrection of COINTELPRO techniques that had been killed, at least officially, in the post-Watergate era. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 417

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• XREF: The ‘reward-suppress’ structure parallels the book’s broader anatomy of how fear functions - the state’s selective tolerance serves control. Reads like a direct echo of the Black Muslim Scare chapter treatment of COINTELPRO. — connects to: Federal agents entrapped Muslims and punished even charitable donations as terror support — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 572