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Contact: patrick.dennis18@montgomerybell.edu Death came instantly to Imam Luqman, as four FBI agents fired semiautomatic rifles from AND more anxious about Muslim Americans being terrorists than they had been before. 16
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 * ====Domestic surveillance is a militarized, extrajudicial tool used to target Muslims and black people birthed from COINTELPRO. We begin by telling the brief story of Luqman Abdullah, a Muslim imam and community activist who served thousands while renouncin g violence. His peaceful community service couldn't save him—he was "unfinished business" from COINTELPRO and was surveilled, infiltrated and assassinated by federal agents because he dared to challenge violent racial oppression.====**
 * Kundnani, 15**—Arun, Professor of Terror Studies and Media @ NYU & John Jay College, formerly a Fellow @ Leiden U (Netherlands), an Open Society Fellow, and Editor of Race and Class. The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism and the Domestic War on Terror, p. 1-5 –BR

As scholars such as Eqbal Ahmad pointed out even before the war on terror, AND call extremism is to a large degree a product of their own wars.
 * ====Luqman Abdullah's story reveals that Islamophobic policies mask the worst forms of ongoing structural violence—The characterization of Muslims as inherently violent is used to excuse mass Western violence—challenging it independently exposes the structural violence of invasive state control and racism ====**
 * Kundnani, 15**—Arun, Professor of Terror Studies and Media @ NYU & John Jay College, formerly a Fellow @ Leiden U (Netherlands), an Open Society Fellow, and Editor of Race and Class. The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism and the Domestic War on Terror, p. 21-25 –BR

====Islamophobia shapes US imperialist foreign policy—notions of western superiority are a critical tool to drum up support for militaristic and elitist interventions, creating a global order of inequality and destructiveness. ==== [09/11/13, Deepa Kumar is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at the Rutgers University. She is the author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire and Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike being interviewed by Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network, "Twelve Years Post 9/11, Islamophobia Still Runs High", http://truth-out.org/video/item/18759-twelve-years-post-9-11-islamophobia-still-runs-high] KUMAR: Absolutely not. I think it is true that larger numbers of conservative AND Americans and people who look Muslim have been demonized since 9/11.
 * Kumar 13**

My Partner and I advocate that the United States Federal government should curtail its domestic surveillance of the Muslim body.
====The popular conception of surveillance focuses on a series of wires, but violence against minority and anti-racist political activists goes deeper—Abdullah's death is the latest in a long line of deadly uses of countersubversion through infiltration—this surveillance tactic has been used to disrupt challengers of institutionalized racism since the rise of COINTELPRO. The reading of the 1AC refuses the FBI's attempt to silence dissent against American empire and opens up genuinely radical political alternatives by challenging institutional racism.==== Two main modes of thinking pervade the war on terror, one predominantly among conservatives AND recent years is the best approach to reducing so-called jihadist terrorism.
 * Kundnani, 15**—Arun, Professor of Terror Studies and Media @ NYU & John Jay College, formerly a Fellow @ Leiden U (Netherlands), an Open Society Fellow, and Editor of Race and Class. The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism and the Domestic War on Terror, p. 10-15 –BR

====Centering our praxis in this space is key—interrogating islamophobia in educational settings is critical to establish a critical consciousness that enables larger political projects that break down status quo conceptions of what domestic surveillance is.==== [Jan. 04 2012, Shirin Housee works at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, UK "What's the point? Anti-racism and students' voices against Islamophobia", Volume 15, Issue 1] Having reflected on the two seminar sessions on Islamophobia and the student comments, I AND is to education that our attention should be directed.' (162)
 * Housee 12, Senior Lecturer in Sociology**

Deconstructing and interrogating flawed assumptions behind Islamophobia is critical to establish a transformative and liberatory pedagogy that enables us as agents to challenge racist dynamics
[2004, Jasmin Zine is a researcher studying Muslims in the Canadian diaspora. She teaches graduate courses in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto in the areas of race and ethnicity, anti-racism education and critical ethnography., "Anti-Islamophobia Education as Transformative Pedadogy: Reflections from the Educational Front Lines", American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21:3] As an anti-racism scholar and educator, fellow colleagues and I realized from AND " is important to exposing how power operates through the politics of representation.
 * Zine 4, Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies**