These ambiguous aims, which sound innocuous and even well intentioned, are code-speak for programming that would educate students about the threat of radicalization, develop a “see something, say something” culture in schools, and, ultimately, deputize school administrators and students to be watchdogs on the lookout for homegrown radicals—radicals, absurdly, that were as young as eleven years old and profiled because of their religious identity.

QUESTION: How widely has this sort of school-based counterterrorism programming actually been implemented, and what have the documented consequences been for students?

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 403