War on Terror surveillance methods extend identically from American cities to African towns

Evidence

The tables were now turned, and the eyes of twelve Muslims turned toward the two interlopers. We delivered question after question, which revealed that the two individuals were far more comfortable interrogating us than the reverse. This was how surveillance worked back home, in American cities and towns with concentrated Muslim populations. War on Terror surveillance, whether at home or far from it, was the same beast and left the same footprint. Wajir, Kenya, like Los Angeles or Detroit, was another theater of the War on Terror’s “field of fight,” where the new “world war” pursued terrorist boogeymen and -women near and far. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 124

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s core thesis in the reading purpose: Islamophobia as a coordinated global condition where surveillance techniques migrate across borders. Also mirrors the logic in Iftikhar’s global-synthesis view of America exporting counterterror practices. — connects to: The same surveillance technology and logic operate at home and abroad — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 541; Surveillance technologies shuttle unchanged between foreign warzones and domestic Muslim communities