But these practices, as shown in this book, are not effective in reducing terrorism but instead create racial hierarchies. Statistics show that Americans have a 1 in 45,808 chance of being killed by a foreign terrorist attack, based on data collected from 1975 to 2015 (Nowrasteh 2016). Americans are more likely to die due to health issues, like heart attacks and cancer, or even an animal attack, than from foreign terrorism. Yet the fear of Muslims and terrorism drives support for increased surveillance.

XREF: Relates to surveillance-state scholarship and Islamophobia literature on how security regimes encode race.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 484