Assimilationist Muslims seek to expand US national identity from Judeo-Christian to Abrahamic

Evidence

Should immigrant Muslims choose the path of assimilation and accommodation, then anti-Islamophobia campaigns will focus on expanding American national identity from Judeo-Christian to Abrahamic. Like other immigrants before them, some Muslims will be merely following the “American dream” of seeking Whiteness with all the attendant privileges, all the while excluding Blacks, Native Americans, and other groups that have been permanently racialized as non-White. These Muslims hope that one day, they too will be socially accepted as part of the American mainstream, as are Jews and Catholics today. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 974

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Lex Oppia and beard-style ‘inclusion into the mainstream’ dynamics from the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article — each group buying into the dominant norm rather than overturning it. — connects to: The Judeo-Christian category is a mid-twentieth-century construct that erases Islam from the West — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 229; Full assimilation in antebellum America demanded converting away from Islam; The Judeo-Christian concept emerged around WWII partly to expel Islam from the West — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 229
• SEED: Potential essay angle: how each wave of marginalized US groups (Jews, Catholics, Muslims) is offered ‘Abrahamic-ness’ as admission ticket, and what each successive integration costs and conceals.