US counterterror policing imports Middle Eastern sectarian divides into domestic Muslim communities

Evidence

In addition, the metropolitan Detroit area is home to a sizable Lebanese American population, which, like the Iraqi community, is overwhelmingly Shiite. The sectarian demographics of the city have equipped DHS, and local law enforcement, with the added ability to turn Muslim American communities against one another—to mobilize Shiite Muslim Americans as informants or full-fledged partners against their Sunni Muslim American counterparts. In effect, this imports the sectarian divides of the Arab world into structural Islamophobic counterterror programming at home, in an effort to uncover the homegrown radical—who is far less real than imagined. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 395

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the machine of Rana’s apparatus and Selod’s surveillance in concrete operation — DHS mobilizing one community against another. — connects to: DHS imported Middle East sectarian divide-and-conquer strategy into US Muslim communities — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 410; US counterterrorism agencies divide over whether Islam causes radicalization or merely justifies it — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 490; CVE policing exploited sectarian divides among Muslims to recruit informants — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 405 (+6 more)
• SEED: The ‘less real than imagined’ homegrown radical as the manufactured justification for community-against-community policing.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 395

Broader Connections

• DHS imported Middle East sectarian divide-and-conquer strategy into US Muslim communities #corroborates (0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 410
• Divide-and-conquer foreign policy tactics moved into domestic Muslim communities via CVE #corroborates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 409
• CVE policing exploited sectarian divides among Muslims to recruit informants #exemplifies (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 405
• The government actively recruits Muslim Americans to police their own communities for extremism. #expands (0.60)
• Orientalist stereotypes institutionalized in government agencies drive Muslim policing #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 126
• US counterterrorism agencies divide over whether Islam causes radicalization or merely justifies it #corroborates (0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 490
• Clash of civilizations framing located terrorism’s cause within Islam itself #expands (0.50) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 266
• Orientalism imagined Muslims as a monolithic Arab or Middle Eastern racial bloc. #expands (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 161