War on Terror oppression of Muslims parallels War on Drugs targeting of African Americans

Evidence

The exclusion of anyone who was not a free white man from accessing citizenship reflects this truth about public discourse and democracy. While the War on Drugs maintained a system of oppression and surveillance of African Americans, the War on Terror places Muslim bodies under the watchful eye of the state and citizens, resulting in their exclusion from participation in democratic processes. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 631

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s slot on the ‘Global Racial Enemy’ and connects to broader carceral surveillance literature. — connects to: The War on Terror legitimizes expanded police repression at home; The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists.; War on Terror rhetoric revived vocabulary from America’s earlier race-based persecutions. (+12 more)
• SEED: Angle: the War on Terror as the racialized successor of the War on Drugs — a comparative surveillance system across two racial terrains.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Anti-black racism and Islamophobia fuse to intensify policing of black Muslims. #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 453
• Black American Muslims suffer compounded vulnerability from converging anti-Black racism and Islamophobia #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460
• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• Comparing Muslims to blacks erases that African Americans are the largest American-born Muslim group #complicates (0.65)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #exemplifies (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• Institutions exploit black Muslims through erasure, demonization, and delegitimization #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 437
• The US government manufactured Islamophobia as a disciplinary technique against black political activism #expands (0.55)
• The War on Terror weaponizes an invented Orientalist past to victimize Muslims today #expands (0.50)