The upshot of this propaganda is that few in the media challenged the King hearings, giving credence to the notion that Muslims are in fact being “radicalized” and need to be questioned and monitored in ways similar to the “reds” in the Cold War era.

XREF: Parallels the historical red scare framework of McCarthyism being mapped onto post-9/11 surveillance politics.

Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politi…, loc. 559