The suppression of politically engaged, critical American Islamic voices is a long tradition. The disciplining of Muslim American politics has been a critical component of US statecraft for decades. In an era in which the government negotiates with, occupies, makes peace, and wages war against more Muslims than ever before, there is little reason to hope that state Islamophobia will end any time soon.

XREF: Connects to broader literature on state surveillance of minority political speech, and to post-9/11 civil liberties scholarship.

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 424