Century-old judicial stereotypes of Islam persist verbatim in today’s politics.

Evidence

Anticipating Ben Carson’s 2015 claim that “Islam is inconsistent with the Constitution” and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s statement, that same year, that Muslim immigration is part of an attempt to “overtake the culture” of the West, the Hassan court’s framing of Islam as threatening to American values and society carried the Muslim naturalization ban forward. Indeed, the very stereotypes instrumental to the courts’ understanding of Islam have been echoed, in virtually identical terms, by today’s Islamophobia-peddling politicians. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 193

Categorization

• XREF: The continuity thread tying Dow/Hassan-era law to current political Islamophobia — strong dialectic evidence for the reader. — connects to: Anti-Muslim rhetoric was founded in the Middle Ages and persists into today; Modern racism against Muslims persists through more polite, euphemistic policy language — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749; Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83 (+6 more)
• SEED: Essay angle: tracing a single slur or fear claim from 1913 court opinions to 2015 presidential politics.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 193

Broader Connections

• Modern Islamophobia is rooted in a 154-year naturalization ban and judicial memory #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 200
• Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric #expands (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83
• Modern racism against Muslims persists through more polite, euphemistic policy language #expands (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749
• Stereotyped Muslim portrayals remain the norm despite new counterexamples #corroborates (0.55) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 540
• Representations of Muslims as monsters persist despite statistical evidence against them #corroborates (0.50)