The interactions between Muslim Americans and their fellow private citizens reveal a power dynamic where one has the authority to watch and monitor the other. In a post-9/11 society, a slight majority of Americans support curtailing the civil liberties of Muslims in the name of increasing national security (Sullivan and Hendriks 2009). … In the case of post-9/11 America, this distrust is rooted in xenophobic attitudes toward Islam and Muslims. Muslim Americans are treated differently than the rest of the population because they are categorized as potential terrorists and threats to Western values due to their religious identity. This justification of their surveillance is a part of their racialization.

XREF: Connects to literature on surveillance studies and racialization theory, as well as post-9/11 civil liberties discourse.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 344