Anti-sharia panic weaponizes legal fear to racialize American Muslims

Evidence

This is why “Islamophobia,” insofar as it reduces anti-Muslim attitudes to a fear of Islam, appears to be too narrow a concept to capture the racial and political factors that underpin current negative attitudes toward Muslims. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 260 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Of course the ban did not impact undocumented or immigrant black Muslims alone. As demonstrated by the detainment of Muhammad Ali, Jr., in the immediate aftermath of the ban, black Muslims indigenous to the United States, with fathers who just five months earlier were being remembered by American presidents and honored by the state, were also vulnerable to the Muslim ban—and vulnerable to the many policing and profiling tentacles of structural Islamophobia. While being black in America today is challenging, being black and Muslim in a nation where anti-black racism and Islamophobia converge is even more daunting. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-sharia testimony framed lawful Muslim practice as a seditious, lawless threat; Anti-sharia and anti-CRT panics deploy identical racecraft tactics against different targets — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 445; Anti-Sharia rhetoric frames Muslim legal practice as inherently subordinating and anti-Constitutional — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 375 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• The term Islamophobia understates the racial and political roots of anti-Muslim bias #complicates (0.74) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 260
• Black American Muslims suffer compounded vulnerability from converging anti-Black racism and Islamophobia #complicates (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460