Anti-Muslim discrimination patterns parallel those faced by other US minorities

Evidence

It is critical to note that some of these dimensions of discrimination are not unique to Muslims, as other racial and religious minority groups in the United States face similar types of discrimination, both historically and currently. For example, attacks on other houses of worship (e.g., gudwara, synagogue), specific derogatory terms for certain groups (e.g., African Americans, Jews), and the intentional killing of individuals belonging to specific populations (e.g., American Indians, African Americans). — Naheed Ahmed, Measurement of Perceived Interpersonal…, 18

Categorization

  • XREF: Echoes the comparative-framing argument used in histories of American nativism and religious intolerance — anti-Catholic, antisemitic, and anti-Black violence share the same structural repertoire.
  • SEED: Article angle: how ā€˜nothing new under the sun’ comparisons between Islamophobia and earlier moral panics both illuminate and blunt the specificity of each group’s experience.