REPORT ON DOUBLE STANDARDS OF TERRORISM PROSECUTION
Emgage Action and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) have developed a report to:
- Recognize the disproportionate impact domestic terrorism statutes and uneven application of resources have had on Muslim Americans and Black and Brown communities.
- Prevent further expansion of domestic terrorism charges.
- Review the double standards in the application of domestic terrorism statutes and Federal Terrorism Charges involving white supremacists versus Muslim Americans.
- Shift federal and law enforcement resources to tackle the real threat of domestic terrorism — white supremacy — by highlighting empirical data.
- Strategize how existing Federal Terrorism Charges can be used to charge White Supremacist domestic terrorism to the full extent of the law.
As our government seeks to address this threat, it is critical that law enforcement and national security agencies apply the same standards irrespective of the ethnicity or religion of perpetrators. The double standards applied in the past have disproportionally targeted communities of color and subjected them to unnecessary surveillance and harassment. Muslims who commit acts of mass violence are often linked to foreign terror organizations and prosecuted accordingly, while White counterparts are not, despite ample evidence pointing to the global nature of white supremacy.
Emgage Action and MPAC have created this package to change the narrative in Congress – that terrorism prevention programs should not target specific faith-based or ethnic groups, but should instead use consistent application of existing laws. Check out our full report by clicking here.