US national security resources target Muslims while ignoring right-wing extremism

Evidence

Despite this rise in right-wing extremism, national security resources have focused exclusively on Muslim communities. And young, progressive Muslims are taking note. They are joining dissident movements that view the American government as an imperialistic and racist power. For them, get out the vote campaigns grounded in a neoliberal colorblind paradigm fail to address the structural causes socially constructing and oppressing the Racial Muslim. The interfaith approach falls short by dealing only with the symptoms of anti-Muslim racism. These young Muslim progressives critique how Religious and Secular Racial Muslims attempt to prove they are loyal and peaceful rather than upend the White Christian supremacist structures causing broader structural racism that harms Muslims. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1029

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how a subordinated group’s internal reformist factions get critiqued by the next generation for ‘proving loyalty’ instead of dismantling structures — parallels the reader’s work on selective deployment of dissent.