White supremacist groups receive civil-liberty protections denied to Muslims.

Evidence

For instance, the same kind of surveillance does not take place in white communities, even though white supremacist organizations have been responsible for the murder of more people in the United States than those supposedly driven by Islam since 9/11. … There is no preemptive prosecution of these groups, which span a wide ideological range that includes white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and various Christian fundamentalist tendencies, even though many such groups form militias and hold regular paramilitary training camps. … However, preemptive prosecution makes an exception for Muslims. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 606

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s MOC question: the double standard in who the state preemptively prosecutes is a generic feature of state racism, but Kumar argues its racial content (Muslim vs. white supremacist) is empire-specific. — connects to: Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship.; Anti-Muslim activists frame restrictions on Muslims as defending liberty. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 29; Religious freedom protections remain racially constrained for Muslims — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 808 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious freedom protections remain racially constrained for Muslims #expands (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 808
• Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship. #expands (0.82)
• Racializing Muslims as political ideologues neutralizes religious freedom protections #expands (0.80)
• Media individualism grants white terrorists dignity denied their victims. #exemplifies (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 946
• Anti-Muslim activists frame restrictions on Muslims as defending liberty. #expands (0.75) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 29
• Militia membership let ethnic groups claim rights that Blacks were denied #corroborates (0.72) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 504