Anti-Muslim racism operates as a logic of white supremacy, not mere prejudice

Evidence

These developments contribute to what the scholars Junaid Rana and Sohail Daulatzai describe as “the Muslim Left and a broader movement of a Muslim International seek[ing] to differentiate itself from the logics and intellectual formation of lslamophobia and instead name anti-Muslim racism as an operative and generative logic of white supremacy.” Religious Dissident and Secular Dissident Racial Muslims who join these movements understand they cannot end the racialization of national security laws without also ending the racialization of criminal law that disproportionately harms African Americans. Nor can they stop the abuse of immigration laws to ban and deport Muslims without connecting them to the abuse of Central American migrants at the US-Mexico border. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1054

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘Muslim Left/Muslim International’ framework that reframes Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism embedded in white supremacy.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the full Rana and Daulatzai argument — what distinguishes their account from standard Islamophobia literature?
• XREF: connects to: Racecraft is the discursive machinery that makes anti-Muslim racism seem rational — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 411; Anti-Muslim oppression constitutes structural racism, not mere religious intolerance — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 91; Anti-Muslim racism is structurally rooted in empire, not individual prejudice — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 78 (+2 more)