ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the ongoing surveillance of Muslim students and the negative impact of targeting Muslims. It offers recommendations that will help curb surveillance and criminalization of Muslim students, deinstitutionalize Islamophobia, and combat discrimination. In this post-9/11 era, Muslim students nationwide have experienced disparate treatment by school safety officers, school and law enforcement officials, and teachers alike. Through religious profiling and surveillance, an unwarranted badge of suspicion and stigma has been thrust on law-abiding Muslim students. The chapter discusses the cases of Mostafa Tabatabainejad, the Irvine 11, and Clock Boy as three examples of how Muslims have been criminalized. The discriminatory surveillance and treatment has produced an undeniable atmosphere of fear and mistrust on school campuses nationwide, chilling religious speech and political activism and discouraging Muslim students from participating in robust, healthy forms of debate and protest.
