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=Classic KM Lab - Andy Hou and Jeffrey Li - Islamophobia Aff= toc

1AC
Domestic surveillance is a militarized, extrajudicial tool used to target Muslims and black people birthed from COINTELPRO. The death of black and brown bodies and pervasiveness of surveillance is now so common that it is both banal and unnoticed.

We begin by mourning Luqman Abdullah, a Muslim imam and community activist who served thousands while renouncing violence. 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 imperialism and structual 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 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

Luqman Abdullah’s targeting didn’t begin after 9/11—it began in the middle passage. After Abdullah and others formed a kinship with Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey to attempt to achieve liberation from white supremacy, mainstream Muslim organizations were targeted and shifted to the fatal decision to instead try to pass as the __model minority__ out of fear.

That “whiteness card” was quickly revoked after the Cold War and 9/11, when Islam was violently converted from a religion to a race—the process of racialization. Instead of //protesting// racialized mass violence, many Muslims again doubled-down on __loyalty proclamations to the U.S.__, a survival strategy that accepted Muslims as second-class citizens begging for patriotic forgiveness.

Vote for the team that best promotes broader action against structural racism by promoting student subject formation through dissent – this is the best way to challenge structural oppression and government brutality 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. 41-54 –BR In July 2011, Arizonans complained that local television news stations were referring to the AND after presenting themselves as loyal, are then accused of concealing their disloyalty?

Islamophobic policies mask the worst forms of ongoing structural violence and you have an ethical duty to challenge them.

We don’t need to win “spillover” – the characterization of Muslims as inherently violent is pervasive in debate scholarship and is used to sanitize mass Western violence – //our// __scholarship__ exposes 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 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.//


 * Thus, we affirm that domestic surveillance of Muslim-American populations should be substantially curtailed.

n The use of informants and agent provocateurs should be eliminated.

n The use of material support legislation to criminalize charitable or expressive activities should cease.

n The use of community engagement to gather intelligence should end.

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 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 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.

Utilitarian value judgements are not neutral – overwhelmingly used by the social elite and those with weak moral intuition. Côté, Piff and Willer 13 [Stéphane, Paul and Robb, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management and Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, “For Whom Do the Ends Justify the Means? Social Class and Utilitarian Moral Judgment”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 104(3), Mar, 2013. pp. 490-503.] Utilitarian judgment maximizes the greatest good for the greatest number on the basis of “ AND in low-conflict moral dilemmas that do not strongly engage such intuitions.

Utilitarian calculations are fundamentally immoral – murder, even to save a life, is an unethical and justifies mass violence. Kramer 11 [Nicholas Kramer, former associate investigator for an oversight & investigations committee in the United States Senate, “Murdering Some to Save Others”, [], 4-12-11] In my ongoing quest to understand how morality and justice apply in a complex society AND save no one if that is the only way to avoid committing murder.

Err on the side of probability to check psychological bias toward long improbable internal link chains – we cite studies Yudkowsky 8 – cofounder of Machine Intelligence Research Institute [Eliezer, research fellow at MIRI, “Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks,” Machine Intelligence Research Institute, pp. 7-8, 2008, [], Accessed 6/29/15] The conjunction fallacy similarly applies to futurological forecasts. Two independent sets of professional analysts AND a futurist, disjunctions make for an awkward and unpoetic-sounding prophecy.

Large threats that are temporally and spatially distant hold little weight in motivating populations. Furthermore, immediate and cumulative systemic impacts are often ignored, even by those affected – climate change proves. Leiserowitz 2005 (Anthony A. P.hDAnthony Leiserowitz is the Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication[1] at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He is also a principal investigator at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University[2] and a research scientist at Decision Research. “American Risk Perceptions: Is Climate Change Dangerous?” Risk Analysis, Vol. 25, No. 6, 2005 pg. 1438-1439 .nt) These results help explain the paradox in public risk perceptions, in which A //mericans appear// //AND// __like this one cannot possibly convey the countless individual tragedies these numbers imply__ .)

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