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A Muslim Registry: The Precursor To Internment?, Sahar F. Aziz
A Muslim Registry: The Precursor To Internment?, Sahar F. Aziz
BYU Law Review
Being political scapegoats in the indefinite “war on terror” is the new normal for Muslims in America. With each federal election cycle or terrorist attack in a Western country comes a spike in islamophobia. Candidates peddle tropes of Muslims as terrorists in campaign materials and political speeches to solicit votes. Government officials call for bold measures—extreme vetting, categorical bans, and mass deportations—to regulate and exclude Muslim bodies from U.S. soil. The racial subtext is that Muslims in the United States are outsiders who do not belong to the political community. A case in point is the “Muslim ban” issued by …
Disaggregating Disasters, Lisa Grow Sun, Ronnell Andersen Jones
Disaggregating Disasters, Lisa Grow Sun, Ronnell Andersen Jones
Faculty Scholarship
In the years since the September 11 attacks, scholars and commentators have criticized the emergence of both legal developments and policy rhetoric that blur the lines between war and terrorism. Unrecognized, but equally as damaging to democratic ideals—and potentially more devastating in practical effect—is the expansion of this trend beyond the context of terrorism to a much wider field of nonwar emergencies. Indeed, in recent years, war and national security rhetoric has come to permeate the legal and policy conversations on a wide variety of natural and technological disasters. This melding of disaster and war for purposes of justifying exceptions …
The World Trade Center Disaster: How Terrorist Airline Attacks Can Affect The Legal, Economic, And Financial Conditions Of Airlines Under The Montreal Liability Agreement, Larry Moore, Rose M. Rubin, Justin N. Joy
The World Trade Center Disaster: How Terrorist Airline Attacks Can Affect The Legal, Economic, And Financial Conditions Of Airlines Under The Montreal Liability Agreement, Larry Moore, Rose M. Rubin, Justin N. Joy
Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review
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