Anti-sharia legislation itself performed the reduction of religion to race
Evidence
Section I of the original bill claims that Islamist terrorism is primarily the result of a legal-political-military doctrine and system adhered to, or minimally advocated by, tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of its followers around the world. This legal-political-military doctrine and system is known as sharia to its adherents, authoritative leaders, and scholars. Sharia is, thus, reduced from a complex and heterogenous body of religious principles that governs prayer, diet, family relations, and property rights, among other things into a political/military doctrine with the force of law behind it. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 280
Categorization
- XREF: The argument that legal rhetoric reifies Islam from religious practice into a fixed political/military category parallels the mechanisms Aziz documents in ‘The Racial Muslim’ where law and policy construct Muslims as a racialized enemy class. — connects to: Anti-sharia legislation frames Islam as a foreign political conspiracy warranting criminalization; Anti-sharia legislation aimed to recategorize Islam from religion to political ideology — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 284; Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 872 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Anti-sharia legislation aimed to recategorize Islam from religion to political ideology
#corroborates(0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 284 - Racializing Muslims as political ideologues neutralizes religious freedom protections
#corroborates(0.90) - Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization
#corroborates(0.88) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 872 - Feminist anti-Sharia arguments reinstalled a secular-religious colour line
#expands(0.84) - The state attacked the Nation of Islam as race rather than religion
#exemplifies(0.83) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 439 - Anti-racist law itself perpetuates the race vocabulary it seeks to abolish.
#expands(0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 679