US visa fingerprinting targeted Muslim-majority countries while exempting European terrorist groups

Evidence

Lest, too, these be considered extreme examples, consider that the United States government recently instituted fingerprinting foreign visitors from 29 countries, including many with no demonstrable link to histories of “terrorism,” conventionally understood, and from which list citizens of European states are pointedly excluded (Baader Meinhof, the Red Brigade, the IRA, or ETA, for instance, too faded for official American memory). — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Direct echo of the 9/11 security state literature and the racial logic of the ‘watchlist’ — connects to Said’s critique of Orientalist threat construction. — connects to: Tens of thousands of US Muslims faced registry, arbitrary arrest, detention or deportation
• SEED: Angle: the selective memory of ‘terror’ — how state terrorism databases paper over European domestic terror histories.