Bias against Muslim-looking workers conflates racial and religious categories.

Evidence

The result is a conflation of the racial Arab or South Asian with the religious category of Muslim coupled with the misperception that Islam is a radical and violent religion. Muslim-looking people are targeted in what can be characterized as “religiously-driven racial discrimination.” 3 A. — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt, 40

Categorization

• DEFINE: The term “religiously-driven racial discrimination” is the author’s own coinage for the conflation that complicates statutory choice (Title VII religion vs. race/national origin vs. §1981).
• XREF: connects to: Hostile work environment claims use national origin or ethnic origin grounds. — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt:…, 30