Because Naveed was on the Selectee List, he had to go through additional security, being searched and interrogated at the terminal gate. Naveed thought his status as a platinum flyer should protect him from this surveillance. But privileges associated with class do not protect Muslim bodies from surveillance in a nation engaged in hypersurveillance. Muslim men are left feeling humiliated in front of their fellow passengers. Most of the men interviewed felt they have no choice but to comply with their surveillance rather than contest it.

XREF: Connects to discussions of racial and religious profiling intersecting with socioeconomic status, and to literature on surveillance studies and Foucauldian compliance under state power.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 191