War-on-terror policies functioned as a call to public vigilantism

Evidence

Indeed, the structural Islamophobia enacted by the Bush administration, and confirmed by media channels “redeployed [the embedded] Orientalist tropes” that Muslims were vile, violent, and bent on destroying the United States. The national security policies of the war on terror were far more than merely protective actions taken to bolster the country’s ability to preempt and prevent terrorism; they were a resounding call to action. They were a call to the broader polity to stand on guard and keep your eyes open, to participate in the national project of defeating terrorism by reporting suspicious activity, to enlist as informants, and, as demonstrated by the horrendous uptick in hate crimes and hate incidents, to take the law into your own hands if need be. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 294

Categorization

• XREF: Reaches beyond the specific framing into Ernstean psychology of how security directives recruit ordinary citizens; ties to Selod’s citizen-surveillance. — connects to: Domestic war on terror functions as a manufactured spectacle of fear rather than safety — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 484; Terror attacks spark vigilante violence against perceived Muslims endorsed by state policy — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 134; State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136 (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: how security policy recruits civilians as informants — the state outsourcing surveillance to the polity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 294

Broader Connections

• Terror attacks spark vigilante violence against perceived Muslims endorsed by state policy #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 134
• Domestic war on terror functions as a manufactured spectacle of fear rather than safety #corroborates (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 484
• State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia #corroborates (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136
• Islamophobic terrorism operates on incoherent, circular grievances #exemplifies (0.50) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 67