Anti-sharia laws presaged and expanded into the Trump-era Muslim travel bans.

Evidence

The sharia bans were followed by the Trump-era Muslim bans, barring citizens of several predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Having fabricated the threat of invasion from a violent horde, all that remained was to prevent them from entering the county. The Trump administration’s executive orders were justified on national security grounds, but in practice what they meant was a five-year separation of families – leaving people unable to see their loved ones during important moments, such as weddings, births, and deaths. The arsenal of laws used against Islam, Muslims, and Islamicized groups continues to expand, but they are never developed in isolation. Keeping out unwanted aliens by closing the borders has disproportionately impacted Middle Eastern refugees, Haitians, and Latinx peoples as well as Muslims who were subject to the Muslim bans. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 290

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘arsenal of laws … never developed in isolation’ point plus collateral targeting of Haitians and Latinx peoples supports the anti-subordination/discrimination argument that parallels and extends Aziz’s racialized-suspect model. — connects to: Trump’s Muslim ban was an extreme version of bipartisan prior refugee restrictions.; Trump’s Muslim ban built on parallel Clinton, Bush, and Obama refugee restriction policies. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 629; The travel ban instantiated a broader structural Islamophobia tying Muslim identity to terror suspicion — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 469 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Trump’s Muslim ban built on parallel Clinton, Bush, and Obama refugee restriction policies. #corroborates (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 629
• Trump’s Muslim ban extended bipartisan precedents set by Clinton, Bush, and Obama #corroborates (0.90)
• Trump’s anti-Muslim measures continue rather than depart from prior policy #corroborates (0.88) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 129
• Muslim bans reclassified several nationalities as threatening enough to exclude. #expands (0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 291
• Trump’s Muslim ban was an extreme version of bipartisan prior refugee restrictions. #expands (0.78)
• The travel ban instantiated a broader structural Islamophobia tying Muslim identity to terror suspicion #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 469
• Trumpism outlives Trump and continues fueling Muslim disenfranchisement. #expands (0.74) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 669
• Anti-sharia laws stripped ordinary Muslim wills and contracts of enforceability #qualifies (0.73) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 277
• Trump’s Muslim ban escalated Islamophobia to overt racial-nationalist action #complicates (0.72)