SOCI 3810 Chapter : The National Security State.doc
4 Mar 2012
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As razack and bell argue, a state of exception comes into play as individuals who are deemed non-citizens because of their profiles are faced with national security issues. After the incident of 9/11, the state found it justifiable as a preemptive strategy to criminalize arab muslim men because their identity marks them as individuals likely to commit terrorist acts. Consequently, once arab men, like almrei, are faced with the legal system, his profile launches him into a state of exception, combined with race thinking, resulting in his limited due process rights as a political person. He is no longer guaranteed the freedoms and rights of normal citizens. Once situated outside law, we enter the historically terrifying world of colonies and the concentration camp. Ideas of colonialism transmit into modern era as the profiles of arab men are used as justification by the state to revoke their human rights.
