{UAH} The FBI recently created "Black Identity Extremists" as a new terrorist designation.

The FBI recently created "Black Identity Extremists" as a new terrorist designation. This move is designed - in great part - to chill, target and criminalize Black organizations committed to undoing racial justice, many of them carrying forward the aims of the Movement for Black Lives.

This designation has many frightening implications, which include:

(1) Broadening the War on Terror to include Black political, social and cultural groups on college campuses, in neighborhoods and beyond as targets ;
(2) Revitalizing COINTELPRO policy and strategy to not only chill the free speech and assembly rights of these groups, but also intimidate them and break them apart;
(3) Endorsing, and emboldening, private white supremacist and anti-Black elements to wreak even more havoc on individuals, organizations and communities;
(4) Compounding the vulnerability of Black Muslim organizations and activists who sit at the cross-hairs of (Muslim) counter-radicalization policing and "Black Extremist" policing; and;
(5) Targeted silencing of visible Black leaders critical of law enforcement, this administration, and state policy at large.

These are just several of many more concerns and perils. It's also concerning that the Southern Poverty Law Center has, to some extent, adopted this framing, conflating the legitimate missions of Black social justice organizations with subversion and extremism. Building la coalition to fight counter-radicalization policies, particularly for groups at the furthest margins, is more pressing now than ever.

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Allaah gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him."And if Allah touches you with harm, none can remove it but He, and if He touches you with good, then He is Able to do all things." (6:17)

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