Anti-Muslim jokes racialize Muslim bodies and mark them as untrusted

Evidence

Although Black and Muslim identities overlap intimately in the demographics of France, the United States, and places beyond and in between, anti-Blackness and Islamophobia are distinct branches of bigotry. Yet young Desi Maher’s trenchant observation highlights the way in which both existences are ascribed deviance on account of their racialized identities. In the same fashion that law enforcement, and the judicial and carceral institutions that orbit and abet it, assign criminalized threat to Blackness, the War on Terror and its central purveyors assign suspicion of terrorism to Muslim bodies. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119 (#expands, via linked claim)

Surveillance of culture is racialized when cultural practices are essentialized as innate to Muslims, subjecting them to intense scrutiny. For example, any abuse that Muslim women experience at the hands of Muslim men is reduced to religious cultural values perpetuated by Islam. The Taliban’s treatment of women in Afghanistan is an example of this culturally fueled racism. Muslim women were constructed as in need of saving from Muslim men, which in turn justified the invasion of Afghanistan (Razack 2008 Abu-Lughod 2013). Another example of this is the misconception that Muslim women are forced to wear the hijab. Private citizens chastise Muslim American women who wear the hijab because for them it represents subservience to patriarchy, rather than being understood as a choice. Wearing the hijab is treated as a cultural aberration to American societal values and individuals who wear it are understood as antimodern and antifeminist. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White victims receive instant humanity denied to Arab and Muslim victims; A professor’s joke stigmatized a Muslim student he held power over — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 445; Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119 (+7 more)

Related

• Anti-Muslim jokes are dismissed as non-racist yet mark bodies as terror suspects (similarity 0.85)
• Anti-Muslim racism collapses diverse names, skin tones, dress, and nations into one imagined enemy. (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics (similarity 0.83)
• Depicting the Other’s politics as sexualized madness marks them as an inferior race (similarity 0.82)
• A white non-Muslim can be forced into the Muslim’s demonological position (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim attacks target visibly identifiable markers like the hijab. (similarity 0.81)
• Racialization operates through cultural traits and social interactions, not only physical cues. (similarity 0.81)
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies (similarity 0.81)
• The vampire, mummy, and zombie all originated in racialized anti-Muslim discourse. (similarity 0.81)
• Muslims move down the racial hierarchy rather than becoming a new race (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural racism targets Muslims’ beliefs and traditions as if they were inherited essence. (similarity 0.80)
• Muslim men can be racialized by ethnicity alone, not only by disclosed religion (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural and religious practices can racialize a body just as skin tone does (similarity 0.80)
• Muslim identity gets racialized through names and clothing, not only skin tone (similarity 0.80)
• White victims receive instant humanity denied to Arab and Muslim victims (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims #expands (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #expands (0.60)
• Criticism that endangers Muslim safety crosses into Islamophobia. #expands (0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 80
• Muslim names alone can racialize phenotypically white people #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 91
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #expands (0.50) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210
• Anti-mosque sentiment reflects anxiety about Muslim bodies being physically close to whites #exemplifies (0.50)
• Othering Muslims suppresses public outrage at their disparate treatment #expands (0.50) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 767