Arun Kundnani, "The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1781681597 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 2.3 mb
Death cameinstantly to Imam Luqman, asfour FBI agents fired semiautomatic rifles at him from
a few feet away. Another sixty officers surrounded thebuilding on that October morning, the culminationof a two-year undercover investigation that had infiltratedthe imam's Detroit mosque. The FBI quicklyclaimed that Luqman Abdullah was "the leader of adomestic terrorist group." And yet, caught on tape,he had refused to help "do something" violent, asit might injure innocents, and no terrorism chargeswere ever lodged against him.
Jameel Scott thought he was exercising his rightswhen he went to challenge an Israeli official's lectureat Manchester University. But the teenager's presenceat the protest with fellow socialists made him thesubject of police surveillance for the next two years.Counterterrorism agents visited his parents, his relatives,his school. They asked him for activists' namesand told him not to attend demonstrations. Theycalled his mother and told her to move the family toanother neighborhood. Although he doesn't identifyas Muslim, Jameel had become another face of the
presumed homegrown terrorist.
The new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrownenemy," domestic terrorists who have becomethe focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures ofpolicing and surveillance in the United States andacross Europe. Domestic surveillance has mushroomed-at least 100,000 Muslims in America havebeen secretly under scrutiny. British police compiled asecret suspect list of more than 8,000 al-Qaeda "sympathizers,"and in another operation included almost300 children fifteen and under among the potentialextremists investigated. MI5 doubled in size in justfive years.
Based on several years of research and reportage,in locations as disparate as Texas, New York, andYorkshire, and written in engrossing, precise prose,this is the first comprehensive critique of counterradicalizationstrategies. The new policy and policingcampaigns have been backed by an industry offreshly minted experts and liberal commentators. TheMuslims Are Coming! looks at the way these debateshave been transformed by the embrace of a narrowlyconfigured and ill-conceived antiextremism.
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