Turning Muslim Americans against one another, as native informants or community informants, watchdogs-for-hire or sectarian rivals, is a vital cog in the war-on-terror machine, and as exhibited by CVE policing, an evolving dimension of structural Islamophobia. While foreign policy tactics in the Middle East have long capitalized on intensifying sectarianism as a strategy for intensifying tumult, division, and conquest, DHS has wielded this very strategy at home, in the heart of Muslim American communities, to bring about the same end.

XREF: Connects Middle East foreign policy tactics of cultivating sectarianism to domestic countering-violent-extremism policing within U.S. borders.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 410