RACON's final report, the Survey of Racial Conditions in the United States (1943), reveals the way in which the FBI attempted to discipline religious conduct in the United States. The report creates a profile of pro-Japanese African American organizations that warned of Islam's links to pro-Japanese sentiment. It then attempted to catalog all of the various Muslim groups popular among black Americans as a way of measuring the security risk to the US nation-state.

XREF: Connects to FBI surveillance history, COINTELPRO, and the broader treatment of Black nationalist and religious movements as domestic threats. QUESTION: What methodology did the FBI use to link Islam to pro-Japanese sentiment in Black communities? This warrants deeper investigation. Builds on: "Black American Muslims viewed Japan as a potential liberating ally"

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 393