White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists

Evidence

This conceptual trick had destructive practical ramifications. It distanced wars waged in the name of protecting white civilization from the hellish terror unfolding in Iraq and Yemen, on one hand, and the white supremacist terror inflicted by the likes of Dylann Roof in Charleston, South Carolina—a white man who killed nine Black churchgoers inside of their church—and Brenton Tarrant in Christchurch, New Zealand. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 936 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In 1994, Pipes founded the Middle East Forum (MEF), which publishes the Middle East Quarterly, a pseudo-academic journal warning of the growing threat from Islam and Muslims. He opposed US alliances with Arab states and called for military intervention in Iran. Most notably, Pipes was among the most vocal purported experts who blamed Arabs and Muslims for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings, only to be proven wrong when the government confirmed that the perpetrator was Timothy McVeigh, a disgruntled White Christian male veteran. Tellingly, the media did not conduct an inquisition into the faults of Christianity. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 705 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A tiny fraction of terrorist actors drove Arab stereotyping as default terrorists. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 254; Domestic War on Terror policing targets immigrants through racialized geography and profiles — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 844; Anti-terror and immigration policies become conflated in framing Muslims as foreign enemies — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 580 (+16 more)

Related

• The Muslim-terrorism conflation distanced white wars and white terror from scrutiny (similarity 0.84)
• Terrorism racialization evolved from Arabs to Iranians and South Asians from the late 1960s (similarity 0.82)
• A white domestic terrorist attack triggered deportation of innocent immigrant men (similarity 0.82)
• A tiny fraction of terrorist actors drove Arab stereotyping as default terrorists. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-terror and immigration policies become conflated in framing Muslims as foreign enemies (similarity 0.82)
• White male domestic terrorists escape the racial inquisition Islam receives (similarity 0.82)
• Whites remain individuals while Arabs are read as violent groups (similarity 0.81)
• Fear of Arab attackers inflates support for security measures targeting minorities. (similarity 0.81)
• Powell’s study concludes that white, non-Muslim men who commit domestic terrorism or other mass shootings are frequently described as being ‘mentally unstable,’ whereas Muslim terrorists are… (similarity 0.81)
• White supremacist violence is analyzed without racial profiling theories. (similarity 0.81)
• Whites are framed as individuals while Muslims are framed as an ominous monolith (similarity 0.80)
• Postwar empire-building and the Israel partnership produced the racialized Arab terrorist category (similarity 0.80)
• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters (similarity 0.80)
• Nearly eight in ten US domestic terror attacks in 2018 were white supremacy motivated. (similarity 0.79)
• The War on Terror globally embedded a racialized terrorist stereotype of Muslims (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Whiteness is categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism regardless of evidence #corroborates (0.92)
• The Muslim-terrorism conflation distanced white wars and white terror from scrutiny #corroborates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 936
• Anti-terror and immigration policies become conflated in framing Muslims as foreign enemies #expands (0.88) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 580
• White male domestic terrorists escape the racial inquisition Islam receives #corroborates (0.88) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 705
• Domestic War on Terror policing targets immigrants through racialized geography and profiles #expands (0.85) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 844
• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters #corroborates (0.85)
• Anti-terror discourse functions to police transnational migration by racializing Muslims #expands (0.85) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 336
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.85)
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #expands (0.85)
• Muslims are framed as terrorists in cases only about immigration violations #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 562
• Whites remain individuals while Arabs are read as violent groups #expands (0.82) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 89
• The War on Terror globally embedded a racialized terrorist stereotype of Muslims #expands (0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1120
• Whites are framed as individuals while Muslims are framed as an ominous monolith #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 938
• A white domestic terrorist attack triggered deportation of innocent immigrant men #corroborates (0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 257
• The terrorist and the migrant fuse into one racialized Muslim type. #expands (0.78) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 33