Many women told me they felt it was their duty as Muslims to represent Islam in a positive light and in order to counter the stereotypes that have racialized them. Monitoring one's behavior and actions like this is a form of self-discipline enacted by the threat of surveillance.

DEFINE: Links community self-policing to the mechanism of surveillance discipline, explaining how stereotypes become internalized as behavioral regulation. Builds on: "Surveillance completes when the surveilled begin self-monitoring."

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 353