US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad.

Evidence

In the decade after 9/11, the approach to law and order in the United States changed drastically with surveillance being a necessary and supported tactic in a society hyperconcerned with preventing another terrorist attack. Surveillance is the observation and monitoring of behaviors and actions that are deemed suspicious. The domestic and international War on Terror legitimizes the political and economic need for increased surveillance, resulting in the corporatization and federalization of surveillance. In other words, surveillance has become big business in the United States, where companies profit from surveillance technologies and tools, such as maintaining databases of information on the general public and then selling them to the government for purposes of security. A surveillance society can only survive as long as there is a need to monitor and observe bodies that threaten security. The War on Terror created conditions where Muslim bodies are racialized, justifying the need for their surveillance. But surveillance does not impact Muslim men and women in the same way; rather, surveillance is gendered, highlighting how racialization is also gendered. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The prospect of mass internment occupies the center of the collective Muslim American psyche. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 520; The War on Terror legitimizes expanded police repression at home; The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75 (+8 more)

Related

• The War on Terror legitimizes expanded police repression at home (similarity 0.85)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (similarity 0.84)
• The War on Terror targets a religiously defined region, making hijab-wearing women stateless foreigners (similarity 0.84)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.84)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.83)
• The War on Terror extended decades of American imperial aggression against Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
• The American War on Terror escalated into mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror recycled COINTELPRO-era racial policing tactics against Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• The prospect of mass internment occupies the center of the collective Muslim American psyche. (similarity 0.81)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.81)
• Civil-liberties-versus-security framing normalizes sacrificing minority rights. (similarity 0.80)
• War on Terror rhetoric revived vocabulary from America’s earlier race-based persecutions. (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror shifted Muslim Americans down the racial hierarchy away from whiteness (similarity 0.80)
• The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims (similarity 0.79)
• Socioeconomic status does not protect Muslims from racialization during war (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #expands (0.70)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #expands (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims #expands (0.60)
• The War on Terror targets a religiously defined region, making hijab-wearing women stateless foreigners #corroborates (0.60)
• The United States offered other nations a template of propaganda and punishment to emulate #expands (0.60)
• The War on Terror extended decades of American imperial aggression against Muslims. #expands (0.50)