Updated 2020 Resource List

2017 reading list

The following resources are ones MJL would suggest to anyone looking to gain more familiarity with policies and programs that threaten human and civil rights under national security pretexts.

(last updated March, 2017)

Domestic Impacts of War on Terror, generally

• Arun Kundnani (2014). The Muslims are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror.
• Sahar F. Aziz (2014). Policing Terrorists in the Community. Harvard National Security Journal, 5, 147–224. (article)
• Amna Akbar (2015). National Security’s Broken Windows. UCLA Law Review, 62, 834–907. (article)

Entrapment, Informants, and Law Enforcement Spying:

• Trevor Aaronson (2013). The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. Brooklyn: Ig Publishing. (book)
• Cora Currier (Oct. 5, 2016). Revealed: The FBI’s Secret Methods for Recruiting Informants at the Border. The Intercept. (article)
• [T]ERROR (2015) (documentary film)

Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP):

• ACLU of Southern California (August, 2013). Muslims Need Not Apply: How USCIS Secretly Mandates the Discriminatory Delay and Denial of Citizenship and Immigration Benefits to Aspiring Americans. (report)

No Fly List:

• ACLU National (last updated Dec. 7, 2015). Grounded: Life on the No Fly List. (article and infographic)

Problems with the “Terrorism” Label, and/or “Radicalization” and “Pre-Crime” Theories:

• Lisa Stampnitzky (2015). Problematic Knowledge: How “Terrorism” Resists Expertise. In T.V. Berling & C. Bueger (Eds.), Capturing Security Expertise: Practice, Power and Responsibility (158–171). New York: Routledge. (book chapter)
• Arun Kundnani (2012). Radicalization: The Journey of a Concept. Race & Class, 54(2), 3–25. (article)
• Asim Qureshi (2016). The ‘Science’ of Pre-Crime: The Secret ‘Radicalisation’ Study Underpinning Prevent. CAGE. (report)
• Do Not Resist (2016) (documentary film)
• Amna Akbar (2013). Policing “Radicalization.” UC Irvine Law Review, 3, 809–883. (article)

Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) / Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) Designations:

• Human Rights Watch (Feb. 8, 2017). US: Don’t Target Muslim Brotherhood: Terrorist Designation Would Harm US Groups, Stifle Democracy Abroad. (article)
• Charity & Security Network (Dec. 2011). Muslim Charities and the War on Terror. (report)

“Material Support” Prosecutions:

• Rachel Levinson-Waldman (May 15, 2012). The Narrowing of Tarek Mehanna’s Liberties Has Consequences for Us All. The Brennan Center for Justice. (blog post)
• ACLU of Massachusetts (Dec. 20, 2011). ACLUM Statement on Tarek Mehanna Verdict. Privacy SOS. (article)
• Charity & Security Network (Oct. 9, 2012). Holy Land Foundation Case Summary: Controversial “Material Support” of Terrorism Trial Results in Long Sentences for Former Charity Officials. (article)
• Charity & Security Network (June 21, 2010). Humanitarian Law Project: Addressing the Impact of Material Support Laws on Peacebuilding Programs. (article)
• Shayna Kadil (Feb. 22, 2010). Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. Center for Constitutional Rights. (video)

Anti-Muslim Law Enforcement Trainings:

• Thomas Cincotta (2011). Manufacturing the Muslim Menace: Private Firms, Public Servants, and the Threat to Rights and Security. Political Research Associates. (report)
• Lindsay Schubiner (2016). How Anti-Muslim Operatives are Indoctrinating Local Police. IMAGINE 2050. (article, covering Center for New Community’s Islamophobia Academy resource)

“Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE) / “Countering Islamic Extremism” (CIE) / PREVENT:

• Arun Kundnani (2009). Spooked!: How Not to Prevent Violent Extremism. Institute of Race Relations. (article)
• Arun Kundnani (2015). A Decade Lost: Rethinking Radicalisation and Extremism. Claystone. (article)
• Khaled A. Beydoun (2016). Between Indigence, Islamophobia, and Erasure: Poor and Muslim in “War on Terror” America. California Law Review, 104, 1463–1502. (article)
• ACLU Massachusetts (last updated 2017). “Countering Violent Extremism,” a Flawed Approach to Law Enforcement. (website)
• CAIR Minnesota (last updated Feb. 11, 2016). Countering Violent Extremism: Want You Need to Know About CVE. (website)
• Brennan Center for Justice (last updated Oct. 5, 2016). Countering Violent Extremism (CVE): A Resource Page. (website)

What’s the “Alternative” to Abusive Intelligence Practices that Treat Muslims as a Suspect Community?:

• Brennan Center for Justice. Rethinking Intelligence: Reforms for a Failing System.